2. Reaching Out With the Web
Web goals for 2006
• Digital
Organization
• Building better
learning
environments
• Building better
learning
communities
3. Reaching Out With the Web
Web status in 2008
• Database driven
content
management
• The WCATY
Academy (Online
School)
• The WCATY
Village (Online
Community)
4. The WCATY Database
Meet Bernie
• MySQL and PHP
driven
• Custom built for
unique needs
• Powers our Power
Tools!
5. The WCATY Database
Bernie’s Power
Tools
• The “Ask Bernie”
Appliance
• Allows WCATY
Directors to look-
up and edit
information
through an online
interface
6. The WCATY Database
Bernie’s Power
Tools
• Teacher Grading
• Allows WCATY
teachers to grade
students on
multiple
benchmarks
quickly and online
7. The WCATY Database
Bernie’s Power Tools
• Online Library
• Allows WCATY
teachers to upload
original learning tools
or link to learning
tools outside the
WCATY academy
library
8. The WCATY Database
Bernie’s Power Tools
• Online Registration
• Allows DPI GT
Coordinators to
register their own
students into our
system
• Allows for real-time
invoice
9. The WCATY Online School
The WCATY
Academy
• Moodle driven
• Custom built
curricula
• Database Driven
Tools
11. The WCATY Academy
Too Powerful?
• Come for the
class, stay for the
social fun stuff.
• 500 chatty kids
can bring down a
a server!
• Don’t Panic!
12. The WCATY Village
Online Community
• To be unveiled for
school year 2008-
09
• Safe, secure
online community
for gifted students
• Co-op Lite!
13. The WCATY Village
Social Net-playing
• More than just social
networking, students in
the Village can pit their
skills against social,
community and
academic challenges and
be rewarded by the
system with special
access to groups and
tools, and status
badges displayed on
their own home page
14. The WCATY Village
• With corporate interest, The Village can be
used to allow students access to corporate
mentors from across Wisconsin
