Michael C. Warren

Technology and Education

August 2009 Field Activity Reflection

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As the new school year began I had the opportunity to talk with the Superintendant and discuss the possible changes I thought we could make over the course of the year. One of the things we discussed was figuring out a way we could eventually have teachers update their own pages and allow certain staff members have the ability to edit certain parts of the site.  This is a direction I saw us going and our current option while maintaining our budget would be to use Adobe Contribute for each user who wants to make edits to the website.  One of the first things I had to do was to see how the Adobe Contribute Key works. This key has to be used with the software program in order to make edits. The key contains information about site access and permissions for that user while keeping that information from the person accessing the site to edit it.  The down side to using this method is having a license for contribute and it had to be used on machines with the software, limiting teachers to edit from other locations. Fortunately we already had for 500 users, and began looking into how the contribute key would work with the current site.  One of the first lessons I learned is that I could not limit users to pages, but had to limit them to folders.  Because of this I had to restructure the entire website so that each campus had a dedicated folder, and each teacher had a dedicated subfolder of their own, that they could edit without editing any other page in the district.  Campus tech leaders would have the right to edit anything in their campus folder, and at the district level they could make any changes to all pages.  After restructuring the website, we began sending out the Adobe Contribute keys to a majority of staff members, mostly at the Secondary level.

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August 30th, 2009 at 2:58 pm

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