New Budget Transparency Requirements for ALL school websites

The State of Michigan is requiring all public schools to include a 150px by 150px logo to be displayed prominently on the District homepage.  The image is to link to important school district budget documents for the public to see.  It’s called Budget and Salary Compensation Transparency Reporting.  We now have this logo/badge on our … Read more

Updating File Management – Docman

Well, after trying a variety of file download components for Joomla we are going to go with Docman.  We are currently using Phoca Download and I cannot say enough good things about this product.  It’s free.  Has good support and features.  Is continually being developed.   But it doesn’t have an auto-publish feature.  I want … Read more

Advanced Moodle and Open Source Web Development

13TH Annual Educational Technology Leadership Conference June 21-22, 2010 Thurston High School, Redford Advanced Moodle and Open Source Web Development Chris Kenniburg, Dearborn Public Schools – kennibc@dearbornschools.org Learn how Dearborn Schools has integrated Moodle and other open source applications to create a suite of student centered web enabled tools.  Some topics that will be covered: single sign-on … Read more