Slide 1: Josh Seamon St. Johnsbury Academy 1/24/08
Slide 2: Themes  You don't know what you don't know  Anything is possible  Willingness to conquer tech problems
Slide 3: Immediate Goals  Create a wide-ranging community  Maximize how we use what we already have  Be transparent from day 1
Slide 4: What now  Follow the "Get Involved" steps on STJLabs.com  Start playing, posting, and sharing NOW  Designate project leaders  Dominate Academics Manager
Slide 5: Academics Manager:  Features 1. Bulletin Board 2. Calendar 3. Discussion Threads 4. Resources (Files and links) 5. Multimedia Manager (Photos, Audio, Video) 6. Student Roster
Slide 6: Academics Manager: Portal  Page
Slide 7: Academics Manager: Class  Page
Slide 8: Note  Wikipedia is NOT evil  Throw out past assumptions and beliefs  This is not meant to be any kind of exhaustive list
Slide 9: Possible Projects: Wikis  "A website or similar online resource which allows users to add and edit content collectively."  A wiki is software that allows users to create, edit, and link web pages easily. Wikis are often used to create collaborative websites and to power community websites. They are being installed by businesses to provide affordable and effective Intranets and for Knowledge Management. Ward Cunningham, developer of the first wiki, WikiWikiWeb, originally described it as "the simplest online database that could possibly work". [1] One of the best known wikis is Wikipedia.
Slide 10: Possible Projects: Advanced  Course Management  Moodle: A course management system (CMS) - a free, Open Source software package designed using sound pedagogical principles, to help educators create effective online learning communities. You can download and use it on any computer you have handy (including webhosts), yet it can scale from a single-teacher site to a University with 200,000 students.  DrupalEd: An engine suitable to setup or build a content driven or community driven website. Modular design allows flexibility in design. + Course management modules
Slide 11: Possible Projects: TabletPCs  Many, many, many uses  Projector + Wireless Projector Adapter  Ubiquitous Presenter  One Note  Available soon?
Slide 12: Possible Projects: Document  Management and Collaboration  Google Documents: A free, Web-based word processor, spreadsheet, and presentation application offered by Google. It allows users to create and edit documents online while collaborating in real-time with other users. Google Docs combines the features of two services, Writely and Spreadsheets, which were merged into a single product on October 10, 2006. A third product for presentations, including technology designed by Tonic Systems, was released on September 17, 2007. The different web services can be accessed with just a browser & an internet connection. The best part is you don't require to install any software on your computer.  ZOHO: Zoho is a suite of web services offered by AdventNet.
Slide 13: Possible Projects:  Podcasting  Podcast: A collection of digital media files which is distributed over the Internet, often using syndication feeds, for playback on portable media players and personal computers. The term, like "radio", can refer either to the content itself or to the method by which it is syndicated; the latter is also termed podcasting. The host or author of a podcast is often called a podcaster.  WordPress: A semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability.  PodPress: A podcasting plugin for WordPress.
Slide 14: Possible Projects:  Videocasting  Services like blip.tv, ustream.tv, and YouTube offer a free way to reach a global audience with video.  Production tasks  Spectacularly versatile
Slide 15: Possible Projects: Social  Bookmarking  A method for Internet users to store, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of web pages on the Internet with the help of metadata.  In a social bookmarking system, users save links to web pages that they want to remember and/or share. These bookmarks are usually public, and can be saved privately, shared only with specified people or groups, shared only inside certain networks, or another combination of public and private domains. The allowed people can usually view these bookmarks chronologically, by category or tags, or via a search engine.
Slide 16: Possible Projects: Open Source  Software  Computer software for which the human-readable source code is made available under a copyright license (or arrangement such as the public domain) that meets the Open Source Definition. This permits users to use, change, and improve the software, and to redistribute it in modified or unmodified form. It is often developed in a public, collaborative manner.  An SJA Open Source Software CD/Thumbdrive to all incoming freshmen.
Slide 17: Possible Projects: Survey  Tools  We LOVE to survey the Academy population. The process could be improved.  SurveyMonkey vs. WuFoo vs. ??  Paperless survey delivery with easy data analysis  STJLabs.com URL forwards
Slide 18: Possible Projects: Voice  Collaboration and  Communication  Voice Threads: An online media album that can hold essentially any type of media (images, documents and videos) and allows people to make comments in 5 different ways - using voice (with a microphone or telephone), text, audio file, or video (with a webcam) - and share them with anyone they wish. A VoiceThread allows group conversations to be collected and shared in one place, from anywhere in the world.  Evoca: Web-based voice recording and conversation organizer  Skype: A software program created by the Swedish and Danish entrepreneurs Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis. Skype allows users to make telephone calls over the internet to other Skype users free of charge, or to landlines and cell phones for a fee. Additional features include instant messaging, file transfer, short message service, video conferencing and its ability to circumvent firewalls.
Slide 19: What next  Craft policy recommendations and identify big-ticket requests based on our real-world research  Create the Executive Technology Committee  Design the SJA Boot Camp
Slide 20: Reminder  Create the “Get Involved” steps on: STJLabs.com
Slide 21: Questions?