November 1999

Rapid Growth!
Posted Monday, November 29, 1999
The number of staff members requesting individual district web site pages continues to grow, as do the number of pages with actual "live" content. Toward the bottom of the right hand column of this page you will see a list of Community Middle School teachers who are beginning sites. More will be following every day.

Thank you to Integrationist Dave Girtz for his quick offer to inservice Middle School staff today and for making sure the first sites were set up and ready to go for staff members to begin adding their own news and calendar information.

One site I'd like to point out is Mr. Stumpf's Middle School Technology Education page, which he is using as a pointer to a more fully developed web site. The title and address of this page will probably change soon to better reflect its focus as a shared page focusing exclusively on Middle School Technology Education.

Greetings from the TIES conference!
Posted Tuesday, November 23, 1999
Hello from Minneapolis, where several district staff members are attending the TIES '99 - Creating the Vision Conference. Today, our new district web site will also be used by Scott Wegner from the Freshwater Education District to help demonstrate some of the power of Linux!

More Additions
Posted Wednesday, November 17, 1999
If you look toward the bottom of the right hand column of this page, you will see the first links to pages that have been set up for several Lindbergh Elementary school staff. A page has also been set up for Dave Girtz, who is now covering tech integration duties at the Middle School, as well as two mornings per week at Lindbergh.

District Staff Web Page Update
Posted Tuesday, November 16, 1999
If you look at the list to the right, you will see that individual home pages have been set up for 28 district staff members so far! The response from teachers has been nearly overwhelming . . . there is still quite a list of people to set up. I'm taking it a little slow, just to see what kind of problems people run into!

Those who have added material to their pages have the graphic by their names. I may not have caught them all yet . . . and others will be adding to their pages. (I won't keep the "new" thing up forever! Just while things get rolling...)

Check out these sites!
Posted Wednesday, November 10, 1999
High School Faculty members Mr. Hemingway and Mr. Robinson have begun adding content to their District Home Pages, covering Vocal Music and Graphic Arts, respectively. Mr. Hemingway's page can be viewed at http://www.lfalls.k12.mn.us/users/mhemingway and Mr. Robinson's page can be viewed at http://www.lfalls.k12.mn.us/users/steverobinson

New Personal Sites Added...
Posted Wednesday, November 10, 1999
The first two "personal" pages that are part of the new District Web Site are now available. Mr. Buker has a page with info about the next Riverwatch to Russia trip at http://www.lfalls.k12.mn.us/users/dbuker, and Jayme Johnson will be adding information to his page shortly at http://www.lfalls.k12.mn.us/users/jaymejohnson.

Going Public . . .
Posted Thursday, November 04, 1999
A couple of technical issues remain to be resolved, but the new structure of the District Web Site is nearing completion. The Riverwatch pages and other pre-existing district web content will be moving over to the new server in the next few days. Several staff pages are being prepped and will be live next week.

Tuesday Update
Posted Tuesday, November 02, 1999
I've been working on getting the web page directory working . . . and am facing a couple of perplexing problems that I hope to have solved shortly :-)