Web of Connections: Will Richardson

After an exciting start to the Monday TIE conference with the keynote address, Will stated "we need to rethink our ideas of literacy to prepare our students to become not only readers and writers, but editors and collaborators as well." Just curious how many schools allow blogging?

I especially liked the statistics he was giving us with the did you know video.

I spent some time trying to download the you tube Will talked about. I had seen one video there and it happened to be that one. I found a great program called video piggy to allow me to download this video.

Here is the link to see it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65wE6yFYgP8

TIE Technology Award Winner--Dave Ehlers

Congratulations to Dave on his award! He has been on the forefront of technology for some time, with the latest being his work with the Classroom Connections project. Kadoka School District has since been featured in i.e. magazine.

One of the founding committee members of SDSTE (and its past president), he has influenced technology integration across the state. He has proven leadership qualities with an insight for innovation and education.

Options for Designing Web Sites

• Nvu (which stands for "new view") is a new and reliable web creation program. Nvu makes managing a web site a snap. Now anyone can create web pages and manage a website with no technical expertise or knowledge of HTML. Nvu makes web creation as easy as typing a letter with your word processor. Updating web pages is easy, simply login to your web site and navigate through your files, editing web pages on the fly, directly from your site. Update your web pages with this new easy-to-use program. Nvu is free and available for both Windows and OS X! Download a copy here: http://www.nvu.com/download.php
  http://www.nvu.com/websitehelp.php

• Netscape composer--free and is an easy to use web program. http://www.urban.uiuc.edu/courses/varkki/composer/
  http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/courses/ci235/tutorial/composer/index.html
  
• remote terminal--does your school have one? We have old server given to us at the first TTLNA as a secondary server and use it as our remote terminal. We have frontpage installed on ours and users can log in and work on their web site without the software on their own machine. They are fabulous to use! Works great from home, or if you are a MAC user and want to use Frontpage.
  Go to Start/All Programs/Accessories/Communications/Remote Desktop Log in with your regular school account.

• Publisher--would save locally and publish up each time.
  
  
• New Frontpage is called: 2 versions 1)Sharepoint designer and 2)Expression Web. We are not changing for a couple of years. Staff really like frontpage! http://www.microsoft.com/expression/products/overview.aspx?key=web

• Dream Weaver--another great option for schools and is PC or MAC!

• Adobe Creative Suite is still another option and is PC or MAC!

However you do it, web sites are great communication tools.