250,000 Visits in Deer Park!

Deer Park Schools, located about 40 miles east of New York City, started using eBoard in 2000. They chose eBoard after first trying a more complicated service that required a great deal of hands on management by their technical staff. Today Deer Park Schools offer eBoard to their educators as an optional tool they can use to increase communication between teachers, parents and students. eBoard usage since they launched has steadily grown, and during the 2003-2004 school year this district of six schools received more than 250,000 visits to their teacher eBoards!

Mahoning County Career and Technical Center

JoAnn writes "As the technology integration specialist for our school, eBoard is a lifesaver. I use eBoard to post all of our in-services, neat teacher web sites for each department in our school, templates that teachers may want to use, upcoming videoconferences and pictures of these conferences, and different collaboration Internet projects for different areas of instruction. I have even created a business card that was given to all staff with the eBoard URL and my log on and a picture of my eBoard. The eBoard is DEFINITELY A TIMESAVER for me and my staff; it works so much better than emailing everything. I am also proud to say that after having an in-service on eBoard, many teachers now have an eBoard, and we hope to have more onboard with eBoard in the next school year."

Cameron Parish, LA

Mary writes to let us know that "eBoard is awesome! It allows my parents and students to keep abreast of what is happening in class at all time. It is easy to use and only takes a few minutes of my time each week to keep it up to date. It is one of the best tools that has been developed for education. I use my eBoard to provide assignments, projects, rubrics, maps, worksheets, powerpoints, pictures of student projects, and so much more. I'm fairly technical and have my own webpage but I prefer eBoard because it is faster and easier to use."

Success at Episcopal High School of Jacksonville

Episcopal High School of Jacksonville has used eBoard since the 2001-2002 school year. Today, eBoard is a part of the daily routine for teachers, parents and students. Every teacher has an eBoard, and is required to keep up to date information, including homework assignments, the course syllabus, and project information and resources, on their eBoard. On the average day, the eBoards of their 90 faculty members see more than 1,000 visits for parents and students.

Clear Instructions and Easy to Use

Scott from Oklahoma writes "I appreciate the ease and set-up and clarity of the instructions on eboard. I am taking a distance learning class and I chose to set up a learning site as my project. For weeks, I struggled with 'product B*'--- the software my school uses --- getting nowhere and with no clear way to communicate with someone at 'product B' who could help me. My plaintive e-mail to 'product B' land went unanswered. My instructor suggested your site as an easier alternative. It has been so much easier to get set up and get on with my project. Good job on the design and I appreciate your thoughtfulness about a new user can find his/her way."

* Name changed to protect the guilty...

It Saved So Much Time

Brenda, an eight grade teacher, writes "I love using eboard. I was able to post all my lesson plans on the site so students (and parents) would know if homework was assigned. I also used the site to post extra credit projects, special programming instructions, helpful tutorial sites, and basic classroom expectations. I found eBoard to be extremely easy to use and always up and working. I had no trouble at all using the site for the entire school year. It saved so much time. I was often able to say to my students 'you can get that information from my website.'"

Increasing Efficiency in Newark!

Newark Public Schools in Newark, NJ have used eBoard for 3 years as a communication tool for the technology coordinators in each of their 76 buildings. Each technology coordinator has their own eBoard where they post helpful technical, computer and Internet related information for the staff in their building. The technology coordinators can quickly and easily post message about computer lab hours, virus alerts, and links to helpful Internet resources for their teachers. Additionally, they post "how to" materials for software such as Microsoft Word and Powerpoint for their staff, problem based learning activities and success stories from other teachers. Now that teachers in each building know there is a single place they can go for many of their technical needs, the tech coordinators have found that they get less email and fewer phone calls from teachers.

Posting Assigments for Students and Parents

Geraldine from Palm Beach, Florida writes "I use the eboard to post all my class notes, lessons, worksheets (I have them on my school computer and just load them onto the eboard), etc. so that students can find their assignment in case they are absent or lose it, etc. I also have a 'message board' where students can ask questions and receive answers.

"The eboard is a tremendous help for both students and parents. On any given day a parent can find out what his/her child is to do. I leave the assignments up for the duration of a unit so that parents can find what make up work a student needs. It saves me tremendous time in that parents know to go there and do not call me constantly."

Sharing Information

Kathleen from Massachusetts writes "I am an 8th grade English classroom teacher. I also have a homeroom. I use my eboard for weekly schedules, unit information, websites, parent information, calendars for school functions and grade postings, homeroom news, and homeroom units.

"Parents utilize the eboard to communicate with me via email, check homework, school news and events, and get classroom unit information and requirements. Students use the eboard to communicate with me via email, download assignments sheets and rubrics, get homework and missed work when absent, and get additional websites and other information pertinent to current units of study."

Every Year a New Way

Jan from Redmond, Washington writes "I love eBoard!! My students know how to access eBoard from the first day of school because we have an interdisciplinary team and all of us use eBoard. I put each day's activities up right before I leave school so that if a student is absent, if a student has forgotten what we did, or if a parent wants to check what we did that day it will be current. Additionally, I attach worksheets, links to websites, and other documents of importance. When we use the computer lab and I want students to go to a particular website, rather than have them perform a search where they might wind up someplace inappropriate, I have them go to my eBoard where I have the website url and all they have to do is click on it. Works great! Next year I will use the newest where I can create a tab for permanent documents such as classroom rules, procedures, etc. Every year I learn a new way to use eBoard."

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