School Website Winners!

The last day of the UTC conference is tomorrow. It has been a wonderful, information-filled conference. The pre-sessions yesterday were fairly well attended. I presented a pre-session for an audience of Grenville County School Webmasters and a second session for an audience of teachers interested in learning more about the Teacher Website Tool (EdPoint). At the end of the webmasters session I announced the winners of the school website awards. This was extremely difficult as our school websites have vastly improved this year and fewer awards are given. Here are this years winners:

Bronze

• Elementary - Greenbriar and Chandler Creek
• Middle - Woodmont
• High - Greer

Silver

• Elementary - Mitchell Road and Brook Glenn
• Middle - Northwest
• High - TR
• Other - Roper Mountain Science Center

Gold

• Elementary - Alexander and Oakview
• Middle - Bryson
• High - Mauldin
• Other - Fine Arts Center

Congratulations on the winners. I have your certificates and will have them at UTC tomorrow. I'll send by courier those who do not pick them up.

Due to suggestions during our session (Dee Jacobs), I've decided to offer specific training sessions in late July - early August rather than general sessions like last year. The purpose is to come to a session and leave with a newly implemented tool working on your website. Topics will include. ASP Calendar, Dynamic Faculty Directory, Flash Menus, and Spry Accordion. I'll set these up on the portal and let everyone know. I'd prefer to meet at a school for these. If anyone is able to host these sessions, it would be easier for connectivity to be at a school rather than at our office.

Hope to increase blog post frequency!!

I have two sessions tomorrow entitled: "Technology Tools for Teachers: Curing the Content Conundrum". Perhaps I'll see some of you there.