[NIFL-FAMILY:970] RE: Web Sites for Promotion

From: kate northcott (katenorthcott1@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Apr 16 2002 - 10:05:19 EDT


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Your programs have scanners and your families have
computers in their homes?


--- Virginia Tardaewether
<tarv@exchange.chemeketa.edu> wrote:
> Well Ted if we need to not advertize field trips for
> parents on the
> website...is there a way to have a secure source of
> information transfer?
> Parents to contact school, school to contact
> parents...???
> 
> Virginia Tardaewether 
> 
> Chemeketa {Place of Peace} 
> Outreach Instructor 
> Dallas, OR  97338 
> 
> tarv@chemeketa.edu
> 503-316-3242 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ted Rohling [mailto:tedr@instructors.net]
> Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 11:23 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: [NIFL-FAMILY:964] Web Sites for Promotion
> 
> 
> Virginia,
> 
> I know this will sound a bit ridiculous, but putting
> field trip information
> on web sites is like a billboard for problems.
> 
> Most schools don't do things like this because it
> can attract the wrong type
> of participant.  Our children have gone to a lot of
> school that used to have
> name tags on the kids during field trips.  Now they
> have tags but no names.
> The names seem to allow people to identify a child,
> talk to the child by
> name (no stranger now) and some abductions have
> occurred.
> 
> Advertizing that 20 to 30 kids will be at a given
> location at a given time
> is great for the families but not so good for the
> community.
> 
> Your second point about keeping web sites up to date
> is very, very
> important.  I work with a lot of volunteer
> organizations who keep web sites
> and after the first two months, the information is
> virtually useless.  They
> are a lot like bulletin boards.  If they don't
> change very often or have out
> of date information, no one looks any more.
> 
> Just thinking out loud here.
> 
> 
> Ted
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nifl-family@nifl.gov
> [mailto:nifl-family@nifl.gov]On Behalf Of
> Virginia Tardaewether
> Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 11:00 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: [NIFL-FAMILY:963] Re: Promotion of Products
> 
> 
> I would think that web sites would be good ways to
> integrate planning for
> families.  Schools could add their schedules of
> field trips, etc so families
> could plan ahead and work out arrangements.  Web
> sites can be a good two way
> communication media but important contributors have
> to update regularly...I
> think it has great potential in partnership
> relationships of all kinds.
> 
> Virginia Tardaewether
> 
> Chemeketa {Place of Peace}
> Outreach Instructor
> Dallas, OR  97338
> 
> tarv@chemeketa.edu
> 503-316-3242
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: GloriaW914@aol.com [mailto:GloriaW914@aol.com]
> Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 9:01 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: [NIFL-FAMILY:961] Re: Promotion of Products
> 
> 
> Don't forget the use of scanners in parent and child
> technology experiences.
> 
> Children's artwork can be scanned, along with
> photographs or pictures, then
> children and parents can add text to create books,
> signs, etc.
> 
> Gloria Williams
> Family Literacy Project
> Tucson, Arizona


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