Chris Kenniburg who is the Webmaster of the Dearborn, MI school district, reports that they’re taking the plunge into all sorts of Read/Write Web stuff with at their site. Here’s an excerpt from his e-mail:
One of the
most exciting aspects of our website for parents is the new PTSA blog/
website along with a PTSA message board. What is great about the
PTSA blog is that they can quickly post and distribute information
rapidly throughout our community. This was just launched at the
beginning of the school year and we have several parents who
contribute to the blog. It is exciting to see parents taking hold of
the technology and use it to help provide for a better education for
all students by advocating through the blog – as well as promote
activities, fundraisers, etc.We also use RSS technology for podcasting. Our podcast incorporate
streaming video and integrate nicely by clicking “subscribe” in the
iTunes podcast directory. Currently we only podcast our Board of
Education Meetings, however, we have some ambitious high school
students who will soon be adding videos produced in a HS video
production class to the feed. They are very excited about being able
to podcast classroom video projects.
There’s other stuff too, and the podcast setup page is a nice model. We’re getting there…
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