Using parents as twitter reporters

Our district is encouraging parents and staff to use their personal accounts to tweet about various school events.   Simply include @WDMCS in your tweet and we’ll review and possibly retweet it.  We may also  re-publish your information on Facebook or other channels.  Here’s some specific Q&A’s and examples…

Q. Do I need to sign up or register for this?
A. Absolutely not…  just tweet about your favorite events and include the @WDMCS twitter name.

Q. What types of information and events are you looking for?
A.  Any school related events, highlights, or recognitions. 

Q. Are there any examples of what we SHOULD NOT tweet?
A.  For elementary events that take place outside of school, we do NOT want to advertise them prior to the event.  In other words, our practice is NOT to tell everyone where a group of young children will be at a certain location prior to the event.  Instead, we ask that you tweet during or after elementary events that take place outside of school.

Q. Do you have any examples?

 

Which schools send most of their print jobs electronically?

During the month of February, our district print shop measured the number of electronic versus hardcopy print job submissions. 

Does this mean we have to send electronically?
We certainly allow hardcopy for unique situations, but our goal is to move to the highest percentage of electronic submission as possible, as this is not only most efficient, it’s also the lowest possible price.

Electronic vs Hardcopy submission for Feb 2012.

School	Electronic Upload	Delivery by Email	Delivery by Hardcopy	Total Print Jobs	% electronic
Fairmeadows	229	1	0	230	100%
Phenix	33	0	0	33	100%
Southwoods	275	0	1	276	100%
Hillside	368	0	11	379	97%
Crestview	239	14	8	261	97%
Valley	669	14	29	712	96%
Jordan Creek	224	7	19	250	92%
Indian Hills	201	0	22	223	90%
Stilwell	273	0	43	316	86%
LRC	113	14	27	154	82%
Walnut Creek	2	1	1	4	75%
Westridge	124	7	73	204	64%
Crossroads	57	2	36	95	62%
Western Hills	89	1	55	145	62%
Clive	109	2	118	229	48%