TiE2016

Website Evaluation

Learn how to evaluate your organization's (primarily educational) website to make sure it is meeting your organizational goals as well as the goals of your audience. We will look into ways to improve existing content on your website, identifying the functionality needed for your users to achieve your goals, and making sure your pages are structured properly for screen readers and SEO.

Website Compliance

If your organization is federally funded, such as a school/district, you are required by law to make sure your website is accessible. If a lawsuit is brought up against your organization because of accessibility, you could be looking at millions of dollars in fines and costs for redesigning the website and training staff on compliance.

We will look at ways to make sure your website is Section 504/508 compliant and how you can make sure everyone has a positive experience while using your website - regardless of what device they may be using to view it or disability they may have.

If you are an Administrator, Superintendent, Technology Director, or anyone who has a say in your organization's website, you can't afford to miss this session!
 
Greenfield Public Schools Case Study with Jordana Harper - Superintendent

Jordana Harper of Greenfield Public Schools will share her story about the redesign of the school district's website that was completed with CES. We will look into the ways the new website improves overall user experience and functionality, allowing content editors to deliver effective and compliant content to their community.

Online learning is no longer new. But are we REALLY connecting with its true potential? Maybe. Schools integrate tools like Blackboard, Edline, School Fusion, ItsLearning, Compass, Moodle, Apple, Google, Windows and more. Yet this smorgasbord approach isn't quite enough to advance our students toward college and career readiness.

This fast-paced workshop asks AND ANSWERS tough questions. Why are we involved in online learning? What are the differences between "redesigning" and "integrating?" Where is the "base" of your educational activity? How would you teach if you didn't have a classroom? Where does innovation most often begin? Why is innovation often blocked even with the best of intentions? What can teachers and administrators actually do in the face of limited budgets?

Find out what actually works! Learn how one district continues to expand online learning with high success even severe budget restrictions and with an extremely diverse student body with many special needs. Learn how this district uses teacher developed "pockets of excellence" in online learning to bring about systemic change. Learn about a real-world fusion of teacher innovation, professional development, and administrative leadership. Although Moodle is the demo platform for this workshop, the same concepts and approaches can be applied across many platforms. BRING YOUR ONLINE DEVICE. BRING YOUR YABUTS, TOO - "YABUT IN MY SCHOOL . . ."

Leonard Gibbons, IT Director at Holyoke Public Schools, will share strategies for managing his network to support BYOD, 1:1, and new learning models focused on improving the learning experience. Workshop Participants will also be invited to share their ideas and success stories they may have.

We will also discuss how application network usage analytics can be used to understand technology usage in the classroom for better insights.

Moving to standards-based teaching and learning can be a daunting process for any school and district, but having the right tools can make that process much less so, with easy grade entry, thoughtful curriculum development, long-term record keeping, and robust reporting. JumpRope was developed from the ground up for schools and districts implementing standards-based grading and serves as a platform to help schools and districts improve teaching and learning. Effective standards-based learning empowers teachers, parents, and students with the data needed to pinpoint specific areas for improvement.

Participants will learn about JumpRope’s curriculum creation process, its gradebook interface, the robust school- and district-wide reports that can be created with data inputted into JumpRope, the parent and student portal. and its integration with student information systems such as Infinite Campus and PowerSchool.