The IB goes electronic
By Clare Roberson • Jan 24th, 2008 • Category: IB, toolsJanuary the 8th saw the very first of our “electronic mailings” to IB World Schools. This means that the IB no longer physically prints and send its main curriculum documentation to schools - no more guides, teacher support materials, specimen papers, coordinator’s notes etc printed and posted. Instead, schools are expected to get their materials from the OCC or from the IB store.
In the early stages of this project we’d planned on having the new OCC in place with the facility for teachers and coordinators to subscribe (by email and RSS) to new additions on the OCC; news, resources, publications and forum postings. However, we have not achieved what we planned to last year and we now have our sights set on mid-2008 for the re-launch of the new OCC, or OCC III as we call it in our office.
In the meantime, to try to help our users with this transition to electronic publication, we created a “latest publications” page - accessible from any subject page on the OCC. It still has a few bugs that need fixing, and it could also benefit from having a search facility, but we think that it works quite well, and hope that it will help our users to find the documents they need and not make the transition to electronic mailings quite so painful. 
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Hi,
can anyone please help, I have an assignment about being innovative within your working enviroment. Currently, I work in a BI enviroment and use a tool called SAS. Please help!!
Hello Clare
I am interested in learning about your project. I write from Oberlin Ohio where the superintendent plans to introduce and IB program to the district. The district is struggling on many levels, such as lower than optimal grades on state report cards, a lot of poverty situated with a more educated population of children of college professors. There is a lot of anxiety in the town about implementing IB. Any comments you or readers might have on IB in would be most appreciated. Thanks for your post and good luck with the electronic publications. It is very exciting to see a district taking on this new approach to teaching and learning. The site can be found at http://www.communitydiaries.org/oh/oberlin/?p=122