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John Hendron Goochland County Schools
 * [|www.johnhendron.net]
 * All teachers,205, are required to blog
 * Wants students to blog, but needed to start with teachers
 * All teachers have laptops
 * 2:1 student to computer ratio
 * Library media specialists are the web masters at the schools
 * Uses Movable Type software
 * Uses Plone (open source) for teacher web pages
 * Replaced Moveable Type
 * Start small and then let it grow with support
 * Film - Blogumentory- http://blogumentary.org/
 * Began podcasting this year
 * Superintendent blogs
 * Director of Secondary Education blogs
 * Podcasting
 * Need to involve RSS to make it a podcast
 * Permits you to publish
 * Software is available that builds RSS feed for you
 * Permits iTune use on their network
 * Principals maintain their page also -- some use blogs others as web pages
 * Some into podcasts
 * RSS feeds if we use Sharepoint????
 * LMSs do website and blogging…podcasting
 * Use of wikis sounds much like what we do with Sharepoint