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Websites Made Easy!

Websites Made Easy!. Liz Niederberger Zumu Software. 1. Who’s your audience? 2. Layout & Navigation 3. Content, Content, Content 4. Policies & Procedures 5. Updating Requirement Defined and Reviewed. 6. Everything in One Place 7. Tools available for many applications

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Websites Made Easy!

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  1. Websites Made Easy! Liz Niederberger Zumu Software

  2. 1. Who’s your audience? 2. Layout & Navigation 3. Content, Content, Content 4. Policies & Procedures 5. Updating Requirement Defined and Reviewed 6. Everything in One Place 7. Tools available for many applications 8. Easy-to-Maintain 9. Site Registration 10. Site Statistics Thing to Think About

  3. Who’s Your Audience? What’s your websites main purpose? • Students • Parents • Teachers • Administrators • School Board • Community Members • Potential Employees Provide Information to Interested Parties Easy to Find Timely Relevant Other Resources

  4. Who’s Looking • Know your audience • who comes to your site • who uses your site • what they’re looking for • Most visited pages on a school site • Review the statistics for your current site to find out the most visited pages • HS - Job Postings, Athletic Pages, Lunch • ES - Job Postings, Lunch, Calendar

  5. Layout & Navigation • Site Look • Navigation - simple, easy-to-use navigation. • Top navigation bar, side bar, both (example) • Popout or drop down menus (example 1, 2) • Design consistency • Individual schools - colors, navigation, look • Design Layout • Full page, fixed width, relative, centered (example 1, 2)

  6. Content • Most important part of a school website! • Anything you want students, parents, teachers, administrators and community members to know should be on the school website! • This information should be easy to find! • Make your website the first place everyone goes go to find information. Saves time, money and resources!

  7. Policies and Procedures • Teacher User Agreements • Define Responsiblities • Define Allowable Content • General Information • Teacher Information • Student Information • Posting Frequency

  8. Updating Requirements • Who is responsible for posting information for each section of the website. • Who is responsible for providing information for each section of the website. • How often each section of the site will be updated. • Who is responsible for checking that the updates have been made and are correct. • What happens if the requirements have not been met.

  9. Everything in One Place • All web resources can be found in one place • email login • grade book login • teaching aides (United Streaming, web based software, text book links, etc.) • All papers sent home can be found here • student handbooks, flyers, notices • Emergency Notices Posted Here First • snow pages, emergency closings, situation notices

  10. First Page Should Include • Easy-to-understand navigation • Site search • Good title tag - Smithtown School District • Latest news, important information, upcoming events • Brief summaries of the information with links to more • Contact information, especially a phone number

  11. Things to Avoid • Anything that doesn't contribute directly to the understanding of the site or doesn't impart information • Think about music, whistles, and beeps. • they play unreliably across browsers and platforms • they don't really impart information.

  12. Announcement Boards Calendars Snow Pages Photo Galleries Teacher Pages Lesson Plans Surveys Forms Event Boxes File Sharing Blogs Wikis RSS Feeds Instant Messaging On-Line Courses Digital Lockers Tools for Many Applications

  13. Announcement Boards • District Wide • Elementary Schools • Middle Schools • High Schools

  14. Calendars • District Calendars • Lunch Calendars • School Calendars • Sports Calendars • Building/Room Usage Calendars • Linked Calendars

  15. Snow Pages

  16. Image Galleries

  17. Teacher Pages

  18. Lesson Plans

  19. Surveys

  20. Forms • Technology Surveys • Trouble Reporting • Contact Forms • Professional Development • Personnel Forms • Alumni Forms

  21. Event Boxes

  22. File Sharing • Teachers • Students • Administrators • Board Members

  23. Blogs The use of blogs in instructional settings is limited only by your imagination. Options for instructors using blogs: • Content-related blog as professional practice • Networking and personal knowledge sharing • Instructional tips for students • Course announcements and readings • Annotated links • Knowledge management

  24. Wikis • Wikis allow users to freely create and edit Web page content using any Web browser. • Create a wiki for a class to use throughout the year. • Wikis can be Private or Public depending upon the user group (students, teachers) • Wikis allow the organization of contributions to be edited in addition to the content itself.

  25. RSS Feeds • RSS users to subscribe to their favorite websites. • Webmasters can put their content into a standardized format, which can be viewed and organized through RSS-aware software. • Current Firefox and new Internet Explorer verison support RSS feeds without addditional software. • Once a page changes, anyone who has subscribed is notified in their reader.

  26. On-Line Courses • Moodle is a course management system designed to help educators create effective online learning communities. • Zumu currently allows educators to try out this software and develop online courses or additional tools for their regular classes.

  27. Digital Lockers • Web-based document management application, providing a complete set of document and file management capabilities which allows adminsitrators, faculty and students to easily share and manage their files.

  28. Easy-to-Maintain • Content Mangement Software • Web-Based (edit from anywhere) • Permissions based editing • Defined responsibilies and accountability • Takes minutes not hours • Shared Responsibility

  29. Site Registration • Allow readers to add their email addresses to a database • Easily send information regularly to those who signed up • Weekly school updates, sports team results • Provides a fast means of communication for those who signup • Reward early adopters with early information!

  30. Site Statistics • Set goals - Show results • Get more people to use the site • Provide new reasons to come to the site • Keep people coming back • Show off the great stuff going on in school • Improve community interaction

  31. Jacob’s Law Jakob's Law of the Web User Experience states that "users spend most of their time on other websites."

  32. Questions and Comments

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