Sagamore online

This is a place to document the online efforts of Sagamore Hills Elementary School and its PTA.

Collaboration

• Discussion takes place on the Sagamore online discussion list (email • archives • subscribe & more)
• Meetings are documented

To Do

• PTA website To Dos

• Sagamore online goals 2014, State of Sagamore online, fall 2013#Ideas
• Discuss near terms plans (2013-03)
• Phase out sagamorephots@gmail.com in favor of photos@sagamorehillspta.org with its integration with Google Drive
  • Copied everything (46 photos) in the PicasaWeb account for sagamorephotos@gmail.com (Garden/Grounds work photos John Lenz collected) over to photos@sagamorehillspta.org 's Google Drive --Dave (talk) 20:00, 16 February 2015 (EST)
  • photos@sagamorehillspta.org is fully functional and promoted in the announcements. sagamorephotos@gmail.com still exists though; maybe delete it after 2015-2016. --Dave (talk) 16:11, 12 December 2015 (EST)
• Sagamore reference
• Correct @SagamorePTA address for PTA website (from ptasagamorehills.org to sagamorehillspta.org (it used to work years ago) --Dave (talk) 21:02, 19 June 2013 (EDT)
• Correct PTA website address in School Handbook (ptasagamorehills.org → sagamorehillspta.org) --Dave (talk) 22:23, 12 September 2014 (EDT)
• Take a look at Oak Grove Elementary School's online presence as a comparable (Hawthorne Elementary School and Fernbank might be worth a look too)

Done

• Make the authoritative calendar pdf linked from the PTA calendar page an unchanging address hosted by us, like hosted (and updated) on the Sagamore Google Drive --Dave (talk) 14:22, 12 September 2014 (EDT)
  • ✓ The "print" option on the calendar page now provides an (ugly) always-up-to-date PDF created directly from the electronic calendar. The "regular" print calendar that's printed and handed out occasionally is still a Word document on the Google Drive, maintained and synced by others. --Dave (talk) 15:51, 12 December 2015 (EST)
• Email addresses at sagamorehillspta.org, to forward to appropriate people over time? Like board@, online@, advertise@, etc.?
  • Started Sagamore email with communications@sagamorehillspta.org, treasurer@sagamorehillspta.org, and garden@sagamorehillspta.org --Dave (talk) 13:50, 3 September 2014 (EDT)
  • ✓ When Dave Barker became PTA Communications starting Fall 2015, he got the Board using @sagamorehillspta.org email addresses (see http://sagamorehillspta.org/board ) and group (email list) addresses @groups.sagamorehillspta.org (see http://sagamorehillspta.org/groups ). --Dave (talk) 15:41, 12 December 2015 (EST)
• Consider using MailChimp instead of Constant Contact -Dave (talk) 12:31, 20 August 2013 (EDT)
  • ✓ Move made Fall 2015 when Dave Barker became PTA Communications. Constant Contact makes a complete export impossible. The contact were exported and saved to the Drive (and imported into MailChimp). The account is no longer paid for (it was on Nancy Shober's card), but it still possible to log in (just not send). --Dave (talk) 16:10, 12 December 2015 (EST)
• BringIt Signup Sheets (http://sagamorevolunteers.pleasebringit.com/):
  • Should we move over to their "new" signup sheets at bringit.bz?
    • Newness at https://sagamorehills.bringit.bz/ , credentials in the Password file. It wants a credit card to maintain being able to copy sheets (free version looses that and adds ads) --Dave (talk) 12:00, 26 October 2014 (EDT)
  • Should we just use Google Forms instead (possible, advantages?)?
  • ✓ Old signup sheets were copied over to the new (by Nancy Shober) and the account closed. The new one is being billed monthly to Kristie McMahan. Nobody else has mentioned interest in Google Forms or other replacements. --Dave (talk) 15:37, 12 December 2015 (EST)
• Create a photos@sagamorehillspta.org Google account --Dave (talk) 12:00, 01 February 2015 (EST)
• Older done to dos

Services

Email Distribution List

The PTA uses their Constant Contact account to distribute the weekly Wildcat Update Newsletter and any other announcements via email.

Sign-up Sheets

Doing sign-up sheets online is handy, and we seem to have a couple options in use.

• Bringit
• SignUpGenius

Website

Sagamore Hills Elementary School has multiple websites. Discuss them on the mailing list.

DeKalb County Schools

See the Sagamore Hills district website page.

PTA

See the Sagamore Hills PTA website page.

Parents

The community edited Parents website (this site) contains a page for the school and other pages about the school.

Calendar

See the Sagamore calendar implementation.

Domain

sagamorehillspta.org is registered with Dreamhost and points to the Sagamore Hills PTA website. It was first registered 2011-07 by Vera Kornylak.

sagamorehillselementary.com is somehow in John Lenz's hands, currently (2014-04) pointing to the Sagamore Hills district website.

Historic: ptasagamorehills.org served the Sagamore Hills PTA website#History as early as 2008-07, no later than 2011-09, and expired 2012-09 (is no longer a registered domain name).

Vendors

Sagamore Hills and its PTA uses online services from the following vendors.

Constant Contact

Constant Contact powers the email distribution list. The PTA's account, sagamorehillspta, is charged $25 per month for services: Email Marketing and MyLibrary Plus.

Dreamhost

See the Sagamore Hills PTA Dreamhost account page.

DeKalb County Schools

DeKalb County Schools hosts a Sagamore website.

Google

See the Sagamore Hills PTA Google account page.

• mailto:sagamoreelementarypta@gmail.com

Facebook

See Sagamore Facebook

Bringit

Sign Up Sheets

• https://sagamorehills.bringit.bz/dashboard/a61e28 , new (>2014) version of Bringit, credentials in the password file
• http://sagamorevolunteers.pleasebringit.com/ old (<=2014) (let Google find the sheets) -Login known by Dave Barker, Audrey Farquharson, …
• http://volunteerforopenhouse.pleasebringit.com/ , a one off from 2012 (http://volunteerforopenhouse.pleasebringit.com/public/mGFCyw6nEwo)?
• https://jefeild.bringit.bz/ , Johnna Feild?

SignUpGenius

SignUpGenius

• Ms. Menendez 2013-2014
  • Mystery Readers
  • Accelerated Reader Volunteering

Patch

Account, Sagamore Hills Elementary PTA, login with sagamoreelementarypta@gmail.com , with 4 posts as of 2013-11.

Vendors not used

Vendors we're not using, but take note of past evaluations or for future possiblities

Evaluated vendors

• 👍 Sagamore MySchoolAnywhere
• 👎 Sagamore SchoolCollabo

Not-evaluated vendors

• http://membershiptoolkit.com/
• http://www.pay4schoolstuff.com/
• http://www.ptoffice.com/
• http://digitalpto.com/