We are now focusing our efforts on how we can combine and narrow our technology used for web publishing. We are going to be re-thinking how we handle web publishing with a laser like focus on ease-of-use and training. From within each of our 3 supported platforms of Moodle, WordPress, and Joomla we will be adding plugins and improvements that make web publishing easy for teachers while providing enough power to truly leverage technology to it’s fullest in teaching students.
Moving forward we are going to focus on 3 main platforms:
- District Website (Joomla)
- iLearn (Our Moodle platform)
- iBlog (Our WordPress platform)
This will streamline training and provide staff and students with a consistent set of tools from which to work. Any new additional tool we look to provide will need to integrate with Moodle or WordPress just like how Mahara ePortfolios and BigBlueButton web conferencing integrates with Moodle.
Over the course of 2012 we will be making some major changes to how schools handle publishing as well as major improvements to how teachers can work online.
Nice job on all of the web platforms Chris. I have often wondered why you haven’t moved the school websites over to a WordPress Network install. I can relate to managing multiple platforms and the need to consolidate.
Thanks Mark! We really liked the idea of using the wiki since it is so easy for people to update. However, we are going to be shifting how and what schools will be publishing. We think this new approach will take a ton of work off the plates of the schools and allow them to focus on publishing news and events and less time maintaining a website (which is often busy work creating pages that each of the 32 schools duplicate).