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Originally posted by Mike Martus
There are many forums going on that you do not see. It depends upon who you are and what your purpose is. Lets just say that you would be surprised at what is going on behind your back.
One problem our students face is not having computers at home.
Many students access e-mail at the City library or at school ( we just got the internet this year in 20% of the classrooms ). In fact we only got mass computers ( 1 per classroom last year - I installed them).
By most standards we are not a wealthy district!
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I totally agree with you. Our school is pretty advanced actually. We have several labs and most classrooms have at least 2 or 3 500+ mhz computers. They believe strongly in this. I know this isn't the same case with many schools and people at home. Our team actually setup a website/information team consisting of about 3 or 4 students. We have calendar dates, meeting days, team e-mails, and other things on a website. This so far has helped a great deal. We also signed every e-mail up with an excellent service Yahoo! provides called Yahoo Groups. This makes an
email@yahoogroups.com which forwards to every e-mail on that. This helps us send out important information such as the kickoff date, fundraiser days, problems, and anything else. It is a great service and I think other teams should try this service out. It is very good. Also for districts like the one Mike is talking about above I would recommend having everyone sign-up with a free e-mail to check every 2 or 3 days and use for updates if they dont have an account. For a website ask the county server to set you up with one like ours did.