Web Resources for School Administrators

Web Resources for School Administrators

A 1998 study by the SouthEast and Islands Regional Technology in Education Consortium (SEIR*TEC) identified administrative leadership as the single most important factor affecting schools' successful integration of technology (Bryan, 1998)
Awalt, Carolyn, and Deborah Jolly "An inch deep and a mile wide: electronic tools for savvy administrators. Educational Technology & Society 2(3) 1999

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|| Expectations || Navigation || Search Tools || Evaluation || Web sites for Administrators ||

1. Expectations of teachers and students:

Ability to use a browser -- some computer literacy

Familiarity with the vocabulary of the online environment

email skills

2. What are the essential navigation skills for the Internet?

Using dialog boxes and checkboxes

The Worksheet for dialog boxes and checkboxes includes:

Searching the Cabrillo library catalog
Searching for a Magazine article
Learning to open a web address
Getting a free email account

Using Operators and Boolean logic: The Worksheet for using operators and Boolean logic includes:; Boolean Logic overview from SUNY Albany

3. Tools for tackling the Internet: Subject lists, Search Engines and Meta-Search Engines

Subject Lists linked from Cabrillo Library

Search Engines linked from Cabrillo Library

Meta-Search engines linked from Cabrillo Library

4. Evaluation of Internet Resources

The following sites have varying levels of detail and discussion with reference to evaluation of web sites. Central to each discussion is the thesis that high quality cannot be assumed because information is on the web. Students have to learn to think critically and analytically about what they find on the web. A modular approach from Widener University

at: http://ww2.widener.edu/Wolfgram-Memorial-Libary/pyramid.htm

5. Web Sites for Administrators

Management information: California

California Department of Education at: http://www.cde.ca.gov/

STAR Test Results at http://star.cde.ca.gov/
Academic Performance Index (API) at: http://www.cde.ca.gov/psaa/api/
Ed-Data; Fiscal, Demographic, and Performance Data on California's K-12 Schools at: http://www.ed-data.k12.ca.us/
Standards and High School Development Division's Resources and Links at: http://www.cde.ca.gov/secondary/resources.html

California Legislative Information at: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/