The Technology Department at John Stark is looking at new ways to allow teachers and groups to communicate with their stakeholders in ways that are individualized to their needs. Our main school website, www.jsrhs.net, is our public face with highly controlled content, themes and organizational structures. It does not allow for the individualized freedom of expression that our Wordpress MU (multi-user) blog software does.  As we continue to expand the role of our Wordpress site, we will also begin to allow students to have accounts and post original content on their own. This added feature of allowing students access to a content delivery site like this will open new lines of communication for them in what we hope is an exciting and engaging way.

If you are a member of the JSRHS community (teacher, coach, advisor or student) and would like more information on our Wordpress site and how you can be a part of it, see Mr. Law in the Technology Department.

As the Director of Technology, here is how I see our websites being used. This site, wordpress.jsrhs.net, is an open, public access site where information from teachers can be posted for consumption by John Stark students, parents and staff. Teachers can post information while allowing comments for feedback or the information can be unidirectional only.

Our Moodle site, moodle.jsrhs.net, is a password-protected course management system (CMS) that can be used by teachers and students for the secure and private exchange of information. Only users with assigned usernames and passwords may access the content on this site which includes lessons, assignments, wikis, forums, quizzes, tests and surveys.

We also host several internal websites (not accessible from outside our network). The primary internal website is our Cisco site which hoses our Cisco Networking Academy curriculum.

Thanks for visiting our blog site. If you have questions, feel free to email me at stephen.law@sau24.org.