The Effective School Web Page Presented by Roger Nevin

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The Effective School Web PagePresented by Roger
Nevin

• Benefits of a school web page
• Promotes curriculum
• Links to relevant web resources
• Paid for on-line services (i.e. EBSCO, Worldbook)
• Forces students to learn on-line research skills
• Allows teachers and students to share resources
  and ideas
• On-line tutorials and tests

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The Effective School Web Page

• Benefits of a school web page
• Promotes communication with Parents
• See events and important dates
• See what assignments students are working on
• See due dates
• Links to educational resources (e.g. Grade 10
  Literacy Test)
• See marks on-line

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The Effective School Web Page

• Benefits of a school web page
• Helps teachers
• Create links to on-line relevant and free
  resources on the net to support their courses
• Save assignments on-line (never lost)
• Post students marks on-line
• Post due dates
• Put an entire course on line
• Allows teachers to more easily share resources

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The Effective School Web Page

• Benefits of a school web page
• Helps teachers
• Links to do email
• Links to use on-line tools (rubrics)
• Links obtaining course material (MediaNet)
• Area where they can post their own material
• Saves time !

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Making an Effective Web Site

• One teacher/ employee should be in charge
• Knows how to technically make web pages
• Understands the whole web page
• Gives other teachers web page area
• Careful with web material submitted by students
• Knows policy/security and legal issues
• Keeps web page consistent
• Makes final decisions about web page

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Making an Effective Web Site

• Why students should not be the web masters
• They leave and no one understands the Web Page
• Privacy/ Legal Issues
• Tend to be more concerned with graphics than
  contact
• Make mistakes (spelling/ grammar) that reflect on
  the school

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Making an Effective Site

• Find a teacher who is interested in being the web
  master
• Support teacher with time release and PD
• Get a web address that is easy to remember
  (www.adamscott.ca) by using a redirection service
  such as http//www.easyDNS.com

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Making an Effective Web Site

• Design the main web page carefully
• Have a catch at the top
• Design main links to support teachers, Links for
  parents, curriculum and support communication
  with parents
• Have a research area with paid for on-line
  services and the best of the best research
  links
• Have a method to harvest good web site addresses

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Making an Effective Web Site

• Use a good Web Editing Tool. Dreamweaver is
  excellent and is licensed for public schools.
• Pages off the main page do not have to be as
  fancy. This allows teachers to post
  word-processing documents to the web page
• The web master should continually encourage other
  teachers to post material to the web page

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Making an Effective Web Site

• Advertise page address on school newsletters,
  posters, school sign etc.
• Let Parent Council know about it
• Give an assignment to the students which is ONLY
  available on the net
• Newsletters, Calendars etc. that are created in
  the office and can easily be converted to a web
  page which can be posted.

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Making an Effective Web Site

• Get Software from http//www.tucows.com File
  Transfer Program (FTP)
• Graphic Editors
• Web Design Programs

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Conclusion

• An effective school web page provides an enormous
  benefit to students, parents and teachers both as
  an educational tool and a communication tool

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Making an Effective Web Site

• Take a course on web page design
• Sir Sandford College offers excellent night
  courses http//www.flemingc.on.ca/NoIndex/CF/Calen
  dar/PTS/CoursesList.cfm
• community courses