Week 2 Reflection

Of the topics I have discussed with my site mentor, I am leaning toward researching the various e-mail programs available to schools, both cost items and open source. We are an "old" district, so to speak. We have a number of teachers who have been here 20+ years, and even a significant number who have been here 35 years. As you might imagine, they are definitely digital immigrants and many have been dragged into the digital age kicking and screaming. Whatever e-mail program we decided to use must be simple, intuitive, and efficient. My research will focus on those aspects of the programs we look at.

In trying to categorize this research, I believe I would put it under the category of management. We are planning to do district-wide training in the program we choose and the training would fall under "faculty/staff development" category, but the focus of the research remains which e-mail program offers the most with the least learning curve.