Some answers, more questions
Mary Ann responded to my email with a lot of company documentation, all of which is useful in one way or another. What I received was her presentation packet that she used for pitching to schools, her resume, a document answering most of the questions I grilled her with when I emailed her and finally a promotional document not entirely dissimilar to the presentation packet.
I like a lot of her concepts, but I think there are specific things she needs to do in order for her organization to stand on its own. I emailed Elaine to ask if she thinks I should do my deliverables based on Mary Ann's vision of Connected Classrooms (which is probably more likely to be put into fruition) or mine.
Over the course of the last three days, I emailed almost 40 teachers (and got a handful of mailer daemons back), significantly now including Mary Ann's clients themselves.
The purposes of these emails has been to help in the preparation of the PEST and market summary.
Notable common themes in the emails I've received thus far include:
-No teacher believes teachers should have to pay for their individual websites, and most of them believe the administration would be hesitant to do so.
-As revealed in earlier studies that I had perused, most respondants thus far have said websites aren't utilized more because teachers aren't aptly trained to do so, and furthermore don't have the time to become so trained.
-Teachers don't feel the administration prioritizes school websites enough for adequate time, money or other resources to be devoted for their creation and support.
-There are slight differences in what the respondants would want in hypothetical (or not so hypothetical, depending on the teacher in question) websites, but most agree that access to homework and fluid communication with parents are desirable attributes.
One respondant notably mentioned that left out in all this discussion is the student user interface. He suggested the sites be "deeper" and more useful to the students, essentially as a critique to TeacherWeb's set up. Each teacher from a different school has an entirely different web page on TeacherWeb's directory, and this respondant suggested that a single student ought to be able to view a page that captures all of his/her classes - going to one page to access his five classes instead of five different pages individually.
I like a lot of her concepts, but I think there are specific things she needs to do in order for her organization to stand on its own. I emailed Elaine to ask if she thinks I should do my deliverables based on Mary Ann's vision of Connected Classrooms (which is probably more likely to be put into fruition) or mine.
Over the course of the last three days, I emailed almost 40 teachers (and got a handful of mailer daemons back), significantly now including Mary Ann's clients themselves.
The purposes of these emails has been to help in the preparation of the PEST and market summary.
Notable common themes in the emails I've received thus far include:
-No teacher believes teachers should have to pay for their individual websites, and most of them believe the administration would be hesitant to do so.
-As revealed in earlier studies that I had perused, most respondants thus far have said websites aren't utilized more because teachers aren't aptly trained to do so, and furthermore don't have the time to become so trained.
-Teachers don't feel the administration prioritizes school websites enough for adequate time, money or other resources to be devoted for their creation and support.
-There are slight differences in what the respondants would want in hypothetical (or not so hypothetical, depending on the teacher in question) websites, but most agree that access to homework and fluid communication with parents are desirable attributes.
One respondant notably mentioned that left out in all this discussion is the student user interface. He suggested the sites be "deeper" and more useful to the students, essentially as a critique to TeacherWeb's set up. Each teacher from a different school has an entirely different web page on TeacherWeb's directory, and this respondant suggested that a single student ought to be able to view a page that captures all of his/her classes - going to one page to access his five classes instead of five different pages individually.
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