The Internet-Enabled Successful School District Superintendent: How To Use The Internet To Boost Parental Involvement In Your Schools
By Jim Anderson
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Just in case nobody ever told you, being a school district superintendent is a tough job. You are the single person who is ultimately responsible for the academic success of a great number of students. Your every decision can have an immediate impact on principals, teachers, students, and parents.
Now that we've arrived in the 21st Century you'd think that the job would have gotten easier, but it has not. The arrival of all of today's new communication tools such as mobile phones, Facebook, Twitter, and, of course, websites, just seems to have made things that much more confusing. Yes, by now every one of the schools in your school district probably has its own website; however, who is maintaining it and is it really doing anyone any good?
If there is any good news to come out of the current state that we now find ourselves in is that powerful and effective tools have become available for school district superintendents to use. The Digital Bell service is an Internet-based content management system that allows schools (and school districts) to pour all of the information that they have about what is currently happening at their school into a single, easy-to-use online tool that will then process all of that data and create an attractive modern interactive website for the school.
This book has been written to provide you with the insights that you are going to need in order to understand how your school district could best make use of a service like The Digital Bell. We'll be talking about what you need to take into consideration when you are planning on updating the websites that your schools are using, how a school district can use its websites when natural disasters strike, how a school website can get students involved in creating content, and how to get some peace and quiet for office staff by creating a great website.
Jim Anderson
J Jim Anderson is Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of Educational Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London. His work focuses on: theories and methods of second language learning and bilingualism, including Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL); multilingualism and new literacies; and language policy. Underlying this is a commitment to an integrated and inclusive approach to language and literacy education incorporating the areas of foreign and community/heritage language learning as well as English as an Additional Language and English mother tongue. Jim is co-director with Dr Vicky Macleroy of the Critical Connections: Multilingual Digital Storytelling Project launched in 2012.
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The Internet-Enabled Successful School District Superintendent - Jim Anderson
Just in case nobody ever told you, being a school district superintendent is a tough job. You are the single person who is ultimately responsible for the academic success of a great number of students. Your every decision can have an immediate impact on principals, teachers, students, and parents.
Now that we've arrived in the 21st Century you'd think that the job would have gotten easier, but it has not. The arrival of all of today's new communication tools such as mobile phones, Facebook, Twitter, and, of course, websites, just seems to have made things that much more confusing. Yes, by now every one of the schools in your school district probably has its own website; however, who is maintaining it and is it really doing anyone any good?
If there is any good news to come out of the current state that we now find ourselves in is that powerful and effective tools have become available for school district superintendents to use. The Digital Bell service is an Internet-based content management system that allows schools (and school districts) to pour all of the information that they have about what is currently happening at their school into a single, easy-to-use online tool that will then process all of that data and create an attractive modern interactive website for the school.
This book has been written to provide you with the insights that you are going to need in order to understand how your school district could best make use of a service like The Digital Bell. We'll be talking about what you need to take into consideration when you are planning on updating the websites that your schools are using, how a school district can use its websites when natural disasters strike, how a school website can get students involved in creating content, and how to get some peace and quiet for office staff by creating a great website.
For more information on what it takes to be a great school district superintendent, check out my blog, Bell Ringers, at:
www.thedigitalbell.com/blog
Good luck!
Dr. Jim Anderson
P.S.: To find out how your school district or school could use GSL Solution's The Digital Bell Service to create great websites that would boost parental involvement in your schools, give us a call at 888.473.0255 or visit us online at http://www.gslsolutions.com
About The Author
I must confess that I never set out to be a provider of online solutions for school district superintendents. When I went to school, I studied Computer Science and thought that I'd get a nice job programming and that would be that. Well, at least part of that plan worked out!
My first job was working for Boeing on their F/A-18 fighter jet program. I spent my days programming fighter jet software in assembly language and I loved it. The U.S. government decided to save some money and went looking for other countries to sell this plane to. This put me into an unfamiliar role: I started to meet with foreign military officials in order to explain what my product did.
Time moved on and so did I. I found myself working for Siemens, the big German telecommunications company. They were making phone switches and selling them to the seven U.S. phone companies. The problem was that the switches were too complicated. Customers couldn't tell the difference between one complicated phone switch from another complicated phone switch.
The Siemens sales folks were in a bind. They didn't know enough about how the switches worked to tell their customers why they should buy them. Siemens reached out into their engineering unit looking for anyone who could help the sales teams out. I put my hand up and overnight I became a product manager.
Since then I've spent over 20 years working as a product manager for both big companies and startups. This has given me an opportunity to do everything that a product