It would be nice if Google would allow a district to use the Adword technology to push educational related links based on the content of the mail. For example when reading an email that mentions your term paper topic, the sidebar would not be full of ads, but rather links to resources.
Read MorePortland Schools in Google Earth
This is a web tool that allows you to build a table of data from various reports and download it in tab delimited or Excel format.... Parents and staff are sometimes looking for the location of various schools and programs and this would be a nice feature to add to our site.
Read MoreGmail for your School District...
That's where we come in. We're testing a new service with the school by hosting Gmail accounts with SJCC domain addresses (like student@jaguars.sjcc.edu), plus admin tools for efficient account management. Massive storage and features that tame the most unruly inboxes, like powerful mail search, conversation view for messages, and a fast interface, make Gmail very handy for students.
Read MoreWill Richardson Reinvention Chapter "I Quit"
Reinvention Chapter 2—"I Quit": Will posts about his decision to leave his school district position and strike out into the Web 2.0 world. One bit of advice though, I think I'd tell my wife first before mentioning it to Steve Dembo, Jon Pederson, Tom Hoffman and 1000 other folks...
Read MoreMore Google Earth...
Basically you can add building data for buildings that don't show up when you turn on the buildings layer in Google Earth. I made a quick outline of my school using the tool and then opened the resulting kml file in Google Earth to create the image above.
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