According to Beck, Google Applications Specialist for MCPS, the School Nurse Visit Site includes a microsite for each one of the nine schools, along with a unique login for each school nurse. The information is shared only among the individual nurse and the nurse supervisor, Ann Switzer.
Using Google Forms, information is collected about each child's visit to a school nurse. “The nurses select a description that fits the reason for a student's visit,” says Switzer, “and one of them is the 'flu picture' of aches, temperature and respiratory symptoms. We will know how many students this fit on a given day for each school. Numbers will not reflect official diagnosis, but they will still be useful in tracking trends."
Beck reports that when you create a Google Form, using Google Docs, it automatically creates a Google spreadsheet and collects the data for analysis. “Thanks to this feature, the Nurse and the Supervisor can review the data in chart format from the site. This way they can get an up-to-date view of all visits immediately.”
In addition to tracking evaluations, nurses can also access the nurses' manual on the School Nurse Resource site where they can choose to subscribe to receive email messages anytime something new is added or changed.
Sheila Beck has been instrumental in helping administrators, teachers, and students learn to use and implement Google Apps for Education in the Mecklenburg County school system. I had the privilege of covering some of these accomplishments an article written in March 2006 for the Blue Ridge Business Journal: Schoogle: 21st century teaching and learning in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please contact:
Sheila Beck
Google Applications Specialist
MCPS
sbeck@meckweb.org
Phone 434-210-1461
www.vaopenclassroom.org
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