SubscribeOctober, 2008
Survey on NPS system-wide security policies
Submitted by Erik on Tue, 10/28/2008 - 9:56pm.
The following message is being distributed through NPS? PTO newsletters. If you have a chance, I recommend that you take the survey too.
To: Newton PTOs
The School Committee has appointed a subcommittee to review system-wide security policies and to make recommendations to the School Committee on how to deal broadly with security issues. That subcommittee has prepared a draft policy and had discussions about how specific security measures then might be implemented. The School Committee is scheduled to vote on the policy in November. This survey is designed to seek community input on some of the areas under discussion. We hope to get a lot of survey responses from PTO members.
Advertising revenue for PTO Newsletters
Submitted by Erik on Tue, 10/21/2008 - 11:17am.
Following on the topic of Online Payment Options, I was in another conversation about how to handle the large volume of requests to include community service advertisements in the PTO newsletters. It would be nice if there was a non-intrusive way for community service providers to advertise their services to families through the PTO newsletters AND at the same time, for the PTOs to make a little advertising revenue.
As I was documenting some findings for Online Payment Options, I also discovered the Paypal Node module. Module is designed specifically for taking online micro payments in order to post content to a website (which could then flow into the PTO newsletters). This sounds like a perfect solution for the allowing people to advertise in the school PTO newsletters, while the PTOs make a little coin off the advertisement.
NPS TAC Meeting 11/25/08
Submitted by Shelley_Chamberlain on Tue, 10/21/2008 - 10:09am.
Technology Advisory Committee Project Teams
On October 28, 2008 Newton’s Technology
Advisory Committee will be starting its third year of leveraging
community expertise to advise the Department of Information Technology
on the implementation of Newton’s Three-Year Technology Plan (http://www.newton.k12.ma.us/Technology/techplanning/index.html).
NPS TAC Meeting 10/28/08
Submitted by Shelley_Chamberlain on Tue, 10/21/2008 - 10:00am.
Technology Advisory Committee Project Teams
On October 28, 2008 Newton’s Technology Advisory Committee will be starting its third year of leveraging community expertise to advise the Department of Information Technology on the implementation of Newton’s Three-Year Technology Plan (http://www.newton.k12.ma.us/Technology/techplanning/index.html).
Online Payment Options
Submitted by Erik on Tue, 10/21/2008 - 8:38am.
Recently, I've been talking with some fellow PTO technologists about "best practices" in enabling PTOs to accept online payments. Several PTOs have Paypal buttons on their sites that take the visitor to a Paypal page where s/he can make a donation.I'd like to see some better options.
Assuming a PTO website is based on the Drupal? system (as North and Ward now are) here are a few Drupal-based modules that could be useful in the future.
The Ubercart related modules is probably much more than we need at this point. It supports the whole product catalog, in addition to payments. Might be good if we’re selling school apparel and accessories, but too much right now.
The e-Commerce related modules may be better fit. Less focus on managing a product catalog.
The fee and donation modules operate on the Simple Paypal Framework module. This could be the simplest way to collect online payments that is at least a little bit integrated into our site.