Using Your Webpage To Communicate To Your Community

Using Your Webpage To Communicate To Your Community Dr. Richard Voltz Associate Director Illinois Association of School Administrators Mr. David Root Superintendent 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 a Dashboard on your website

http://www.iasaedu.org/

Put Podcasts and Blogs on your webpage

Put Twitter On Your Webpage

What is

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.com Sign up for an account Email address and password

Follow me on Twitter at rvoltz

Make a video podcast

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