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• W219578320 abstract "THE SCHOOL DISTRICT OF PALM BEACH COUNTY (FL) places a heavy emphasis on ensuring that all its staff and faculty--from principals and teachers to coaches and media specialists--are able to collaborate on a regular basis. But with a district numbering about 12,000 teachers and 650 administrators, who serve 170,000 students across 162 schools spread over an area about the size of Rhode Island, getting everyone to meet seems nearly impossible, not to mention costly. At least it used to. That's all changed since Kim Cavanaugh, education technology specialist for the district, rolled out the Macromedia Breeze Web communications system from Adobe Systems (www.adobe.com), allowing Palm Beach County educators to meet more often without having to leave their schools. The technology enables schools and districts to deliver online communications and training to anyone who has access to a computer loaded with the Macromedia Flash Player. Specifically, the district uses Breeze Meeting, installed on a Dell (www.dell.com) dual-processor server in the district's data center, for online meetings and training. The district also has multiple copies of Breeze Presenter installed on classroom computers so teachers can use their accounts to publish student presentations onto the district server. Palm Beach County is in its first year of implementing the Breeze solutions--conducting training with district staff, school administrators, and teachers, and raising awareness of what the software can do. The district has also created Palm Breeze Cafe (www.palmbeachlearns.org/palmbreeze), a weekly Webcast in which members of the district's ed-tech team discuss with teachers the different uses of common technology tools, such as blogs and Google. At many Palm Beach schools, media specialists have even set up projectors to enhance after-school training sessions. Since launching the Web conferencing solution, the district has continued to find new uses for the Breeze technology. For instance, a Palm Beach elementary school class recently used Breeze to receive a lesson on the solar eclipse from its teacher, who was in Turkey viewing the eclipse. Other international collaborations include an upcoming project in environmental studies in which schools in the district will collaborate with schools in Costa Rica to examine environmental problems and concerns the two areas share. Ultimately, Cavanaugh would like to see teachers using Breeze to host their own meetings and to create presentations for parents. But for now, he's pleased to share with fellow educators and tech coordinators how his district has used the technology thus far with such success. What is Palm Beach's technology budget? As you'd expect in a district as large as ours, our technology budget is considerable. Certainly, we spend more than $3 million on hardware every year, but with our support and training budgets, that figure is much higher. What were your biggest challenges before implementing Breeze? Time and distance--the time it takes for teachers to meet together to share and learn from each other--and distance, since it can be very difficult in a district as large as ours simply to get everyone together. District trainers must either travel to different schools to conduct training, or teachers and administrators have to take time away from their school to attend training. Having an online training service allows us to meet more frequently and more efficiently. Why did your district embrace the Web conferencing solution? We had a number of things in mind. We wanted teachers to be able to collaborate more frequently and easily. We wanted to foster a sense of community so that teachers would know that they face the same challenges in their classrooms as other teachers in the district. Teaching can be a lonely profession at times, and we wanted to use Web conferencing technologies to help alleviate this sense that the teacher is alone. …" @default.
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• W219578320 title "Staying Connected Is a 'Breeze': An Ed-Tech Specialist Explains How a Versatile Web Conferencing Tool Is Helping His Sprawling District Remove the Distance between Teachers, Administrators, and Staff" @default.
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