using your webpage to communicate to your community

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Using Your Webpage To Communicate To Your

Community

Dr. Richard VoltzAssociate Director

Illinois Association of School Administrators

Mr. David RootSuperintendent

Williamsville School District

Webpage for technology for administrators is

http://iasa4u.ning.com

Webpage containing tutorial for various technology

functions is

http://iasa.wikispaces.com

Make a webpage with easy to navigate

tabs

http://rayfelt.wordpress.com/

Put aDashboard on your website

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http://www.iasaedu.org/

Put Podcasts and Blogs on your webpage

Put

Twitter On Your Webpage

What is

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What are you doing?

RV-This is information you may

want to know

Twitter is free.140 characters or less

February 2009 Compete.com ranks Twitter as the third most used social network Facebook is 1, followed by MySpace.

Unique monthly visitors at roughly 6 million and the number of monthly visits at 55 million.

Why Twitter?

To communicate in this increasing digital world

How do I get started?

Go to Twitter.comSign up for an account

Email address and password

Follow me on Twitter at rvoltz

Make a video podcast

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Let’s make a video podcast

• Need volunteer(s)• Answer these questions

– Give a brief introduction of yourself and your job

– Explain what you like most about your job– Tell us what you like best about IASBO– Tell us how you participate (or would like to

participate) in a Professional Learning Community for School Business Managers

Upload video to YouTube

Ways to make Podcasts

• Gcast

• ProfCast

• Jing• Camtasia

• Audacity

• GarageBand

Audio only using Gcast

Unfortunately, now costs $99/Year

Audacity

GarageBand

Let’s make an enhanced audio podcast…

• Need two volunteers• Take picture with iPhoto• Record into GarageBand

– Who you are…– Where you work…– What you do…– Why did you choose education as a career?

• Put audio and photos together for Podcast• Introduce with music

iTunes

Blogging

Start your own blog

Would you recommend blogging?

• Absolutely recommend blogging

• Allows the public to ask us questions that they usually do not

• This is what people are saying out in the community

• This is a way for the administration to respond to those public thoughts and comments

What about negative responses?

• Negative responses are usually legitimate and I respond the best way I can

• It is my thoughts that are being put out to the public

• Can write your response and read before posting to make sure message is being conveyed the way you want

What are some of the blog topics?

• Restructuring schools and attendance boundaries

• The blog allowed an ongoing dialogue with the public on this difficult topic

What is Web 2.0?

What do world leaders say?

When I was growing up, my parents told me, “Finish your dinner. People in China and India are starving.” I tell my daughters, “Finish your homework. People in India and China are starving for your job.”

---Thomas Friedman, 2005

Video

YouTube

• Started in February 2005

• Bought by Google in November 2006 for $1.65M

• Already has more content than TV and TV started in 1940’s.

• If TV played 24/7 since inception, YouTube still has more content.

New way to make presentations

• One minute personal introduction

• Do not read from slides

• Use video, pictures, audio, etc…

Screenshots

Screencasting

• Jing

• iShowU• Camtasia

• ProfCast

Jing Application

Demo Jing to showparticipants how to use

RSS feeds

ProfCast

iShowU

Skype

Demo Skype

Google Documents

PollBy

Texting

Use Two Screens

Work efficiently in your office

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