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The Plano Independent School District Website provides
myriad resources for parents, students, staff, relocating
families and the greater community. This current
website design launched on July 1, 2004, offering
our patrons a fresh, modern design, improved navigation
and easily accessible links to thousands of online
resources.
"Technology is enabling school districts to become more and more
accessible to parents and other members of the public," said
Superintendent of Schools Dr. Doug Otto. "The Internet
website is a powerful communications tool, enabling
us to interact with the public and offer convenient
and award-winning web-based applications and resources
for our students, parents, staff and community."
The district's main informational website, located at www.pisd.edu,
is overseen by the Communications
Department with
support from the Technology
Department.
Staff members in each district department serve as
District Web Editors, editing and uploading pages
live to the district server using Macromedia Contribute
software, thus providing timely and accurate information
to the public. The district's Public Information
Officer serves as District Webmaster. The Instructional
Technology Department assists with training of District
Web Editors and provides creative/technical support
for the district website.
The district's technology and communications teams have
collaborated since 1996 to design and maintain the
district website and to train staff members across
the district who contribute to
the many individual pages on the site. Since its
inception, the district website has undergone two
redesigns, in 1998 and 2004, each time delivering
improved navigation and expanded information and
search features.
The website provides full Level 2 compliance with W3C
Accessibility Guidelines .
Contacts
Mary Gorden
Public Information Officer / District Webmaster
Communications Department
2700 W. 15th Street, Plano TX 75075
(469) 752-8030
mary.gorden@pisd.edu
Jim Long
Instructional Technology Specialist
/ District Web Specialist
Instructional Technology Department
2700 W. 15th Street, Plano TX 75075
(469) 752-8087
jim.long@pisd.edu
Students, faculty, staff and parents have access to hundreds
of instructional resources, applications, resource
guides and tools on Plano ISD's Instructional Center,
which is located on the school district's k-12 Internet
server. The Instructional Center serves as the "home page"
on networked computers for all teachers and instructional
staff and students. The Center's vast resources and
convenient user applications are overseen by the Instructional
Technology Department which provides technical and educational
support and training for the district's schools.
For additional information about Plano ISD's Instructional Center,
online
instructional resources and applications, contact:
Contacts
Mary Hewett
Executive Director of Instructional Technology
Instructional Technology Department
2700 W. 15th Street, Plano TX 75075
(469) 752-8060
mary.hewett@pisd.edu
David Hitt
Instructional Technology Specialist
Instructional Technology Department
2700 W. 15th Street, Plano TX 75075
(469) 752-8058
david.hitt@pisd.edu
Technical Support Services & Information Management
For additional information
about Plano ISD's technical support
services and information management, contact the
directors of these program areas in the Technology
Department or the associate
superintendent for technology.
Web-based Administrative Applications
Contact information
is also available on the home pages of most district
web-based applications located throughout this website.
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