Designing

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Designing Developing a School Web Site

• A Collaborative Course for Junior High Senior
  High School Students

Presented byStacey Brashears
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Technology Labs Open

• Fall of 1997
• Ward High School
• All funding for the labs came from grants and
  donations

• Summer of 1998
• St. Peter K-12

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Web Sites

• Ward High School had a web site for the start of
  the 1997 school year.
• Site was created and maintained by a faculty
  member

• St. Peters had a site the following year.
• Site was created and maintained by a parish parent

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First Web Site for St. Peters

• The site was very simple
• Faculty Members
• Calendar
• Phone Fax Numbers

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Second Web Site for Ward High School

• Confusing site!
• Use of links
• Disorganized
• Not too eye appealing
• School name

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Parent and Parish Complaints

• Sites were not easy to navigate
• Information was not updated
• Links were broken
• Not informative enough
• Email contact of faculty
• Sites were not very pretty

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What To Do?

• Meetings
• Parents
• Faculty
• Technical Help
• Parish Parent
• Faculty Member
• Resource Teacher

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An Idea!

• After several meetings.
• An idea came to mind!
• Why not let the students design the school web
  sites?

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Lab Re-design Summer 2000
Ward High School Lab
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How to Teach the Students to Design a Web Site

• Web Site Design Course
• Online Delivery of course
• More exciting for the students
• Work from home or school
• Collaborative work
• Cost efficient

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CollaborationStudent Roles
Principal
Teacher
Student
Parent
Techie
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Students at Work
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Course Samples
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Another Sample of the BlackBoard Course
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Sample of Student Created Site
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Proposed Web Site for St. Peters 2002-2003