Connecting Content, Technology, and the World

It is our belief that technology is a tool that can be utilized to differentiate instruction, provide alternative assessments, address multiple learning styles and develop 21st century skills. Our mission is to provide the resources and training necessary to enable our district faculty and administration to utilize available technology innovations. We strive to provide opportunities for students to develop the skills necessary to be successful in the 21st century.

We will be using a Blog to disseminate resources to faculty, administration and parents. Our blog postings will consist of instructional technology resources, strategies for teaching and narratives. We invite you to subscribe to our blog updates and comment on our postings.

Douglas Walker
Instructional Technology Supervisor K-12
1010 Weldon Road
Oak Ridge, NJ 07438
Phone: 973-697-3535×5843
dwalker@jefftwp.org

Blog: http://blogs.jefftwp.org/wordpress/walker

Our goal for the 2009-2010 school year is to introduce the wordpress blog server to our faculty and administrators. Faculty members in our High School will be working to develop webpages using this tool. Since this is the first roll-out of this new tool we expect to experience some glitches along the way. We look forward to hearing from you regarding your concerns, recommendations, and any bugs you notice in the software.

Blogs offer a number of tools that have phenomenal implications for instruction. Faculty members can post homework, class news, and links. Video, Audio, Images and text are all able to be posted in a blog post. Our current blog server also allows for threaded discussions, password protected posts, moderated comments, and the creation of pages. For more information and additional features please visit our features page.

We hope that parents and students use these blogs to stay informed and continue the process of learning beyond the school day, and beyond school walls. Part of that process is two-way. For some blog posts you encounter, you will notice that comments are now available. We encourage you to have a “conversation” through blogs, extending their use and functionality. For private messages to teachers, however, we’d recommend using e-mail. The posting of your comments is at each teacher’s discretion, and comments that contain personal information or violate our acceptable use policy will not be posted.

To learn more about our decision to move implement blogs in our district please visit the “about our blogs” page.

Doug Walker
Supervisor of Instructional Technology
Jefferson Township Public Schools
973-697-3535×5843
dwalker@jefftwp.org