Monday, March 31, 2008

Sorry, Earlier Post Didn't Address 6 Standards

In looking at the 6 Standards I can see how the tools we were exposed to this weekend have the potential to achieve the goals of standards # 1, 3 and 4. I can see how excel would help an administrator achieve standard 3's goals (ensuing management of the organization) and I can also see how wikis and blogs might contribute to achieving standard 4's goals as well (collaborating with familes and community) but again, I spoke with our administrator plus administrators from 4 other schools and they are not "old foggies" who are afraid of technology, they are very cutting edge I would say and they just don't use the Wikis or Blogs to communicate with the community. When asked why there response was access. When you have rural communities access to internet is often times an issue so they want to achieve the goal of community collaboration and they feel the best way to do it in the environments they operate is through newletters and public access TV. As far as using excel, they say that their business managers use it more than they do, they already have preset programs that do data analysis for them, much like what you have on IIRC, graphs, charts etc. already put together. I guess if you want to compare data that isn't already evaluated it would be used then but most of the time the data they do analysis on already is in comparison format.

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