We are interested in distributing the attached survey to PTO Co-Presidents.

There are a number of ways we could administer the survey, which are captured here. 

Hi All,

Here is the latest version of the "story": School Portal Story v6 ebw.doc (MS Word format).

Since our 2/26 meeting, I've changed the Major Technology and Functional Requirements to be an Evaluation Approach, which includes Knockout Criteria, Teacher and IT Staff Evaluation Categories.

I'll follow-up with a template for individuals doing evaluations.

Let's use this as an anchor page for publishing versions of the School Portal Evaluation Report - or the "story" as we like to call it.

Note to Team:  Feel free to edit these as appropriate

In Attendance:  Erik Britt-Webb (Lead), Janet Porcaro, Charles Frankston, Arnold Sodder, Bob Rainville, Lisa Cohen, Martin Owens (Ubuntu Rep), Matt Anderson

Discussion Summary

Important information about deadlines -- Matt Anderson informed the group that there is no longer a March 1 deadline for the portal decision, as the project has been scaled back somewhat in ambition.  It seems the intention now is to launch a pilot portal at North this Fall, with a small group of teachers, rather than trying to go school-wide immediately.

Let's use this as the anchor page for posting all team meeting notes/minutes.  See individual meeting postings in the child pages below.

I have a friend who has 2 children in the Wrentham School System. They use a Portal called PowerSchool. http://www.powerschool.com/ Has anyone heard of this product. I was more impressed with their initial web site. They market themselves much more clearly than Edline?. I'd be curious about the differences.

My friend says they log in and can check grades daily and she loves it. Her daughter hates it because even though she gets all A's, sometimes she doesn't do her homework, and her Mom calls her on it.

This is the link to Wrentham Public Schools. http://wrentham.k12.ma.us/default.aspx

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Education -- an issue that affects everyone in some
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The 1-1 Learning Team and the Project-based learning team have joined forces to organize a pilot of 1-1 learning at the Brown Middle School, 8th grade science.  We have just put out a request for demonstration units, enough for each child to use a wireless laptop during science class.

This will not be a "true" 1-1 pilot as each student will only use a laptop when in science class, but it will give us an idea about "just-in-time" use, since teachers will not have to "scramble"  to get computers, either by signing up for a lab or mobile cart.