Does the Man Ever Sleep?!?

Pat is just blowing me away with his ideas and energy. I swear I don’t know how he finds the time to do all the work he does. His district-wide CMS proposal is awesome, and definitely will serve as a model for anything that might happen here. Amazing. An excerpt:

Capabilities and benefits:

Ease of use. With a bit of handholding, even the technologically reluctant are able to post content to the Web. More advanced users are uniformly pleased and motivated to do more by the user-friendly interface.

Ease of deployment. All you need is a Web browser on an internet connected workstation. (If it’s IE5.5 or above and on a PC platform, you get the extra benefit of a handy WYSIWYG editor.)

Focus on content. Writing and reading are the goals, not designing snazzy pages. The whole issue of Web site design and updating is put to one side and emphasis is placed on the text, graphic, audio and video content of the page.

Security and monitoring. Password protection and membership management make it easy to enforce appropriate use policies for teachers and students.

Maintenance responsibilities are democratized. CTIs and librarians aren’t Web masters as much as web coaches.Teachers and students are capable of doing their own blog editing, design and maintenance.

Intermediate users can collaborate online.

Communication within the school, and from the school to parents and communities, improves.

Documentation of completed tasks is made easier.

Thanks again, Pat. You go boy!
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