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Welcome, everyone! I hope to use this site as a great way to communicate between buildings as we work together to develop SJSD's SPED Comm Arts curriculum. Eventually, I hope that we can all post research links and links to sites that might contain helpful materials, but for right now, the real "magic" with this site will happen on the page labeled ESSENTIAL OUTCOMES. That is where I have posted the current essential outcomes for Communication Arts 9 and 10. That will be our starting point-- we will use those outcomes to determine our own.

But before you head to that page (by following the link to the left), let me just brief you about a few of the bells and whistles that come with this site. First, you should know that each page has a discussion tab at the top. Just for the sake of showing everyone how this works, I've started a simple discussion thread that can be accessed by clicking on the tab at the top of this page. The discussion area is a great place to post questions and comments about the curriculum writing process.

Also, you'll see a link to a calendar also posted to the left. This is a simple link to the Google Calendar tool. I've already put some meeting dates on there, so be sure to check it out!

Ultimately, we'll use this site between meetings (nothing replaces some good ol' face-to-face time) to shape and refine drafts of our curriculum. I'm not exactly being original here-- I sort of stole this idea from the process I went through this summer when writing the Comm Arts curriculum. That said, I found our site to be very, very valuable. I think the coolest thing is that by posting things online, we are creating sort of a log of our progress. Keep in mind that I am not the official moderator here or anything. Once you become comfortable with the site, you can make you own changes and post your own items. When you click EDIT on any given page, a toolbar pops up that allows you to insert links, write text, and upload documents. It's really easy-- just try playing around with it!

I look forward to working with all of you, and I sincerely hope this site helps our progress!

-Chris