These links will take you directly to each of the online software pages:

Start Page

Calendar

Documents

Sites

Email

Vision

Gateway Preparatory Academy will use technology as a tool for students to learn with, as a method for tracking and maintaining student records, and in the communications process between teachers, students, parents and administrators.

Goals

The GPA website is a Tool for:

• Communication
• Organization
• Information Storage

Tracking Competencies and the Utah Core Curriculum

The computerized tracking and recording system will record student progress towards competencies. Students will be listed as either having achieved a specific competency, be in-progress on a specific competency, or the default of not having yet attempted a specific competency.

A specific student's competency page will indicate for that student whether they have achieved each prerequisite competency. There will be space for additional comments by the approving instructor, the student and their parents, as well as for links to relevant digital copies, photographs, etc... of the student's work product so that it can be later reviewed and displayed in a portfolio. All of this information will be securely made available online or through alternative methods to Academy teachers, staff, the individual student, and their parents.

We could use some help from individuals with specific sets of skills on the technology committee. We'll also be happy to take help from generalists or others who think they can contribute as well.

 The skills the committee is currently most in need of:

• PHP programmers of all experience levels (Experience with the Drupal application framework is a bonus!)
• Experienced Linux/FreeBSD Systems Administrators (Experience with network booting and LDAP a plus)
• An experienced Network Administrator (Experience with Ednet and with physical facilities planning a bonus)
• Graphic Artists of all experience levels (Good opportunity to help build a bigger portfolio while doing volunteer work)
• Experienced database Administrators, especially those with MySQL experience

The Academy has room for you to put in as much or as little time as you are willing to contribute, so please volunteer for the technology committee by emailing Thomas Sewell. If you wish to volunteer for something else, contact the current volunteer coordinator.

Thanks to the Slashdot readers who read our "Ask Slashdot" question and for all of the links and suggestions they made. The question was actually submitted a while ago(20 days), but apparently was the only decent question available for the editors to publish when they needed a new one, so for that I'm grateful.

 When the question was originally not posted, I spent a lot of time searching online and found some of the suggested resources for Multiseat X and how it's being currently used for Libraries, Schools and kiosks, but the Slashdot responses contained several additional options, links and companies that I hadn't found on my own yet, so I'm glad people were willing to help.