Allen+Apgar

=Teacher Web Pages through Schoolwires for the Pequea Valley School District=

=Section 1 - Need Analysis Report=

Executive Summary
The Pequea Valley School District is a rural district in eastern Lancaster County Pennsylvania with two elementary schools (K-5), one middle school (6-8) and one high school (9-12). The school district's mission is to create an environment that inspires each individual to excel. They wish to create students that are resourceful, continuous learners whose values demonstrate the knowledge, skills and character needed to succeed in a global community.

A recently adopted district wide technology plan includes a requirement for all teachers to create and maintain a web page(s) on the school district website. These pages are expected from the staff at all levels: elementary, middle school and high school.

Business Need
The purpose of this project is to have faculty district wide create and maintain a website that can be used to present materials to students and their parents. The training that will be provided will increase the number of faculty who are using Schoolwires - Centricity version 4.2 from 10 to all in 2 years. The Pequea Valley School District has a need for all faculty to develop a positive educational website using Schoolwires (website creation tool) to post materials that will increase the connection and communication with students and parents inside and outside of the classroom, and ultimately make learning an ongoing process not limited to the formal classroom setting and school building. The goal would be to increase the number of teachers using Schoolwires at all levels by June 2011.

Learning Opportunity
Multiple training options will be available for the faculty of Pequea Valley School District over the next year. They will include:
 * Synchronous - Large group instruction for each building
 * Asynchronous - Handouts/Company produced User Guide
 * Tutorial Videos
 * Face to Face training for building technology facilitators
 * Face to Face for inexperienced computer users

Expected Benefits
The benefit to the students of the Pequea Valley School District would include, but not be limited to the following:
 * Teacher Pages created will be useful and meaningful to the student’s educational experience
 * Extend the classroom learning beyond the traditional school day.
 * Provides students with access to important classroom information from any location at any time through the Internet.
 * Teachers will be able to increase student’s use of the technology available to global society

Audience Analysis
The Pequea Valley School District faculty is 143 members from K - 12, ranging from new educators, to those with 30 plus years of experience. The individual computer aptitude of this faculty is spread across the spectrum from basic to advanced, with many at the upper levels (specifically high school and middle school) already using some simple communication through Teacher Pages from Schoolwires. The secondary levels (6 – 12) have, in the past, used Moodle, Blackboard and Edline’s teacher page section to create similar pages. For the elementary level, this is uncharted waters, so careful attention needs to be given to the training being very direct and specific for them.

The secondary audience of this project will be the students of the school district themselves and their families. If the teacher’s individual pages are not created to provided additional support and resources for the classroom information presented, then the project will do no more than create a nice looking website, that does not continue to educate and meet the district’s goal to excel.

Project Design
This project will utilize a variety of training solutions. The first step in training will be a large group presentation, to teachers by building, for an introduction to Teacher Web Pages by Schoolwires. The introduction module will be delivered, in lecture format, at a pre-determined time in the individual school buildings. Next the building technology facilitators will then be given a half day in-service on the remaining modules of Teacher Pages such as text editing, importing pictures, adding text, links, managing calendars, uploading PDF, Word and other test files. This training is necessary to allow the facilitators to get answers to questions, so that they can more comfortably assist and support the teachers in their individual buildings with teaching and coaching of the remaining modules. Teachers who are familiar with the basics may choose alternative help options, as needed via: handouts, company produced user guides, videos and tutorials in a JIT format. Finally, face-to-face instruction and support will be offered, to those who are identified by the technology facilitators, as in need of additional help and encouragement.

Project Success Measures
The success of the “Teacher Pages” training will be measured by the number of teachers in the district with active websites. Active websites will be defined as including but not limited too:
 * basic home page information
 * a picture
 * homework posts
 * minimum 3/4 calendar events
 * 3 or 4 active links

Out of Scope
This project is not designed to be an entry point to computer usage in the classroom. This project will not be teaching HTML writing.

Estimated Project Costs
Class Tuition - $1800 - direct cost. Analysis - no direct cost, included in class tuition Design - no direct cost, included in class tuition Development - no direct cost, included in class tuition. Implementation - $325 - cost of half day subs for 5 building tech leaders. Evaluation - no direct cost, included in class tuition

Total cost - $2125 Project will be completed by June 2010.

=Section 2 - Performance Analysis=

Allen's Notes

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= Section 3 - Design Document Template = 

**Scope of Project**
The goal of this course is to teach faculty, district wide, to create and maintain a website constructed through Schoolwires that can be used to present materials to students and their parents. Because training will need to be delivered to an audience district wide, during various open timing periods and "on demand/just-in-time", the training delivery method will be a combination of methods: small class sessions, Synchronous - Large group instruction for each building, Asynchronous - Handouts/Company produced User Guide, Tutorial Videos and an just-in-time eLearning.

Course Objectives
At the conclusion of this course participants will be able to:
 * independently locate, login and access individual teacher's page on the Pequea Valley website
 * independently create and modify a Teacher Pages website with useful and meaningful resources for extending the student’s educational experience
 * independently locate support resources for refreshing knowledge on: creation of, modification of, and use of Teacher Pages
 * receive remediation for all of these modules from face-to-face JIT assistance with the individual building tech leader

Costs/Timeframes

 * Course Development || 1 month from date of project approval || $2,000.00 ||
 * Pilot Development || 1 month from the completion of Course Development || $500.00 ||
 * Revisions || 20 days at the completion of Pilot || $500.00 ||
 * Implementation || 100 days from the project approval date || $1,000.00 ||
 * Summative Evaluation || 180 days from the project approval date || $500.00 ||

Delivery
(Link to AApgar_Syllabus area of WikiSpaces)
 * Access Website/Overview - Stand up lecture/demonstration (20 minutes)
 * Basic home page manipulation - Module #1: 30 minutes
 * Adding a picture(s) - Module #2: 30 minutes
 * Posting documents (word, excel, pdf) - Module #3: 30 minutes
 * Creating calendar events - Module #4: 15 minutes (Total of 30)
 * Creating active links - Module #4: 15 minutes (Total of 30)
 * Review Activity - Module #5: 60 minutes

Outline

 * ==Access Website/Overview -==
 * ===Stand up lecture/demonstration - in individual buildings===
 * 1) View Website (www.pequeavalley.org)
 * 2) Demonstrate Login procedure (User Name/ Password)
 * 3) Basic Navigation of Pequea Valley Website
 * 4) Selecting Correct Building
 * 5) Navigating to Staff Pages (Individual Teachers)
 * ==Basic home page manipulation -==
 * ===Module #1: 30 minutes - in individual buildings===
 * 1) Open Staff Page
 * 2) Accessing Site Manager
 * 3) Selecting **$SN's Webpage**
 * 4) Adding Text
 * 5) Saving work
 * 6) Viewing changes
 * 7) Sending for approval
 * ==Adding a picture(s) -==
 * ===Module #2: 30 minutes - in individual buildings===
 * 1) Open Staff Page
 * 2) Accessing Site Manager
 * 3) Selecting **$SN's Webpage or Flex Page**
 * 4) Defining Pixel values and uses
 * 5) Adding Picture(s)
 * 6) Saving work
 * 7) Viewing changes
 * 8) Sending for approval
 * ==Posting documents (word, excel, pdf) -==
 * ===Module #3: 30 minutes - in individual buildings===
 * 1) Open Staff Page
 * 2) Accessing Site Manager
 * 3) Selecting **Classroom Notes**
 * 4) Defining document formats (Word, excel, pdf)
 * 5) Add one document
 * 6) Saving work
 * 7) Viewing page
 * 8) Sending for approval
 * ==Creating calendar events & Creating active links==
 * ===Module #4: 30 minutes - in individual buildings===
 * 1) Open Staff Page
 * 2) Accessing Site Manager
 * 3) Selecting **$SN's Calendar**
 * 4) Inserting calendar events
 * 5) Saving work
 * 6) Selecting **Helpful Links**
 * 7) Inserting http Links
 * 8) Saving work
 * 9) Viewing page
 * 10) Sending for approval


 * ==Review Activity -==
 * ===Module #5: 60 minutes - in individual buildings (on their own)===

Learning Components/Materials
__Module ¦ Learning Objective ¦ Subordinate Objective ¦ K ¦ S ¦ A ¦ Learning Activity ¦ Assessment__



Jing Module coming Tuesday afternoon!!!

Administration and Evaluation
Administration of this project will be done by the District Technology Coordinator, Director of Curriculum and Instruction and the individual building administrators.