Post by title1parent on Aug 21, 2008 5:42:32 GMT -5
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D203 opens its Virtual Backpack to parents
August 21, 2008 SUN
By Tim Waldorf twaldorf@scn1.com
Like its students, Naperville School District 203 now has a backpack - a green one, in fact.
Actually, the district has added a new section to its Web site, www.naperville203.org, called Virtual Backpack 203.
According to the district, vB203 is a "new approach to distributing (approved) information from nonprofit organizations, intergovernmental agencies and business partners ... with our students and families. Rather than sending fliers home via backpack mail, the district will be posting this information on a Virtual Backpack Web site for all to see."
Only fliers will be posted at vB203. Forms, which are already available in a different section of the district's Web site, will still be sent home with students.
The district estimates that this green initiative will save more than trees; vB203 will save nearly 2,000 hours per year spent sorting and handling these materials. The district will publicize this new feature over the next several weeks using its Talk203 e-mail notification system. It will update the information on the vB203 portion of its Web site on a weekly basis.
Those organizations wishing to submit fliers for approval and, consequently, inclusion on vB203, should do so electronically by e-mailing a PDF of the flier to dgrier@naperville203.org at least 10 days in advance of the desired posting date. District 203 is asking organizations to limit their postings to one a month, and it will leave them on the site for no more than two months.
In certain instances, the district will allow an organization to make a limited number of printed materials available at schools, but the organization must provide those materials, and those materials will not be distributed to individual classrooms or students.
D203 opens its Virtual Backpack to parents
August 21, 2008 SUN
By Tim Waldorf twaldorf@scn1.com
Like its students, Naperville School District 203 now has a backpack - a green one, in fact.
Actually, the district has added a new section to its Web site, www.naperville203.org, called Virtual Backpack 203.
According to the district, vB203 is a "new approach to distributing (approved) information from nonprofit organizations, intergovernmental agencies and business partners ... with our students and families. Rather than sending fliers home via backpack mail, the district will be posting this information on a Virtual Backpack Web site for all to see."
Only fliers will be posted at vB203. Forms, which are already available in a different section of the district's Web site, will still be sent home with students.
The district estimates that this green initiative will save more than trees; vB203 will save nearly 2,000 hours per year spent sorting and handling these materials. The district will publicize this new feature over the next several weeks using its Talk203 e-mail notification system. It will update the information on the vB203 portion of its Web site on a weekly basis.
Those organizations wishing to submit fliers for approval and, consequently, inclusion on vB203, should do so electronically by e-mailing a PDF of the flier to dgrier@naperville203.org at least 10 days in advance of the desired posting date. District 203 is asking organizations to limit their postings to one a month, and it will leave them on the site for no more than two months.
In certain instances, the district will allow an organization to make a limited number of printed materials available at schools, but the organization must provide those materials, and those materials will not be distributed to individual classrooms or students.