using your webpage to communicate to your community
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Dr. Richard Voltz's presentation at the 2009 IASBO Conference on May 13, 2009. This presentation describes how school business officials can use Web 2.0 strategies to communicate to your staff, school board and community.TRANSCRIPT
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Using Your Webpage To Communicate To Your
Community
Dr. Richard VoltzAssociate Director
Illinois Association of School Administrators
Mr. David RootSuperintendent
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 aDashboard on your website
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http://www.iasaedu.org/
Put Podcasts and Blogs on your webpage
Put
Twitter On Your Webpage
What is
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What are you doing?
RV-This is information you may
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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.comSign up for an account
Email address and password
Follow me on Twitter at rvoltz
Make a video podcast
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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
• Started in February 2005
• Bought by Google in November 2006 for $1.65M
• Already has more content than TV and TV started in 1940’s.
• If TV played 24/7 since inception, YouTube still has more content.
New way to make presentations
• One minute personal introduction
• Do not read from slides
• Use video, pictures, audio, etc…
Screenshots
Screencasting
• Jing
• iShowU• Camtasia
• ProfCast
Demo Jing to showparticipants how to use
RSS feeds
ProfCast
iShowU
Skype
Demo Skype
Google Documents
PollBy
Texting
Use Two Screens
Work efficiently in your office
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