Instructional Materials Online?? How To Manage This New "Stuff"!!

Lea Bailey

Chuck Kennedy

Irving ISD

What’s Going On?

• Online textbooks are here!! – Supplemental Science (online adoption) http://www.kineticbooks.com/cgi-

bin/physinstaller/authlogin.cgi?display=large&msg=&filename=/usr/local/apache2/htdocs/physics/txkp/installer/index.html Slide 31

– ELPS (partial) http://ngelps.com/Website/Default.aspx Slide 32

– Textbooks-teacher and student editions • .pdf format

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/treasures/2011/tx/9780078913099/glencoe_main.html Slide 43

• Web access (Think Central, CINCH) https://tx-science.cinchlearning.com/g_login.html Slide 30

– Ancillary materials • Interactive

• Print off

• Presentations https://www.irvingisd.net/intranet/textbooks/Science.asp Slide 33

• Videos, etc.

Organization

• To make sense of all this and make the

process a bit easier for all, in Irving we’re

centralizing the online textbook information in

one place for students and in one place for

teachers.

Textbook Server Creation • Indistrict server supports these files

• Access point on district staff page http://irvingisd.net/education/components/scrapbook/default.php?sectiondetailid=17332

Slide 34

• Access point on district student page

• Virutal server memory added as needed

• Plenty Gobs Lots and lots of space needed if storing

.pdf files, video files, etc.

• Web access means more Internet traffic so more band

width will be needed

• Who’s going to be the webmaster for this?

• First page of student

• Show teacher textbook server example

Parent Access

• Parents use their students logins

• Copies of textbooks can be downloaded on

home computers as well as student laptops

Teacher Textbook Server

• Now for teachers the security is beefed up a

bit and can only be accessed by staff logins.

• Show student textbook server ex.

How Are You Going To Work With

Other District Departments?

• Is it your decision alone?

• How does curriculum department feel about

this?

• How are departments communicating with

each other about the needs?

• How will this be sustained within district?

Team Approach

Needs to show intertwined reality

??Link to TEA or Region 4 document--? And diagram

Technology

Curriculum Instructional

Materials

Graph from TEA

What About Feelings?

• How do feel principals about this?

• What about students?

• What about teachers?

• Video clip

Who’s the Hands On Person?

• Who will manage the online subscriptions

within your district?

• How’s the student data going to be entered

into the program?

– Import file

– Hand typed by teacher

– Students enter themselves

Software Evaluation

• Asking us to fill out a software evaluation form

on these online programs

• Hassle, but we’re expecting the network’s

support

• “They” need to be in the “know”

• www.irvingisd.net/softwareevaluation Slide 36

Software Evaluation • Vendor

• Product

• Alignment with curriculum

• Deployment

• Data security***

• Costs

• Instructional focus/Learner focus

• Costs in human and hardware resources

• Technical support

***Data Security

• COPPA (Children's Online Privacy Protection

Act)

• Privacy of data

– Does this software require student data or

information to be shared or transferred?

– Who’s going to have access to this data?

– Is it more than directory information?

– Is this company COPPA compliant?

– Click here to read more about COPPA

http://www.coppa.org/coppa.htm

Maintaining Software/Hardware

• Whose going to maintain the student data

base? (students do move around)

– Automatic process

– Teacher

– Technology department

• What about the hardware?

– How fast a turnaround in support?

Publisher Interface

• How does each publisher interface with your district?

– Import files

– You create all the data

– Active Directory

– SIF

– IP authentication

– Account name and password (who creates?)

• Push for standardization through TEA!!

AUP (Acceptable Use Policy)

• Need student buy in for responsibility and

acceptable use practices

• Need parents buy in so that they realize the

value of this tool

• Signed AUP

It’s a New World in Textbooks

• Business as usual isn’t what it was

• Advocates of new TEA method of funding

• Political hotbed

– IMAT is looked at as a funding source

– Old ideas of just order the book

– Old idea of one textbook/student

– Technology allotment “absorbed”

– ESL, AP, and GT needs

– Who’s going to pay if you make an ordering mistake?

Easy Tech Idea

http://www.irvingisd.net/academy/home/default.asp

Contact Info

Feel free to contact us for more information.

• Lea Bailey, Director of Learning Resources

lbailey@irvingisd.net

• Chuck Kennedy, District Textbook Manager

ckennedy@irvingisd.net

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