Making the Internet Sing Your School's Tune --
Essential Questions
How Will Your Web Site Look and Act?
- What makes your school unique?
- What elements do your school's top page contain that you can incorporate into your web page?
- What are your school's colors?
- Is your school a magnet school or a specialized school?
- What kind of feel would you like your library's web site to have? _____Formal _____Friendly _____Academic _____Chatty?
- What is the socioeconomic make-up of your school population?
- What is your school's mission?
- Who is your target audience _____Students _____Teachers _____Parents _____A combination?
- In what kind of area is your school located? _____Mountains _____Ocean _____Desert _____Plains?
- Is gender an important consideration?
- Does your school have a mascot?
- What sports teams does your school field?
- What HTML commands will you absolutely have to know to make a decent web site (HTML editors or no)?
- What are some excellent free or almost free web design tools available to you to build your web site?
- How can you make your web site user-friendly?
- Have a clear navigation system
- Create a storyboard or flow chart before you begin and keep it on hand as you build
- Link each page clearly to your top page
- Link related pages
- Be consistent
- Text
- Links
- Tools
- Style sheet
- Templates/tables
- Navigation bar
- Install a search feature
What Will Your Website Accomplish? - What would you like the library's web site to accomplish?
- provide research reference for _____teachers _____students _____parents _____other?
- provide reading advisory for _____teachers _____students _____parents ______other?
- highlight accomplishments of _____teachers _____students _____parents ______other?
- provide a venue for communication between _____students______ teachers and students?
- archive the school's ______history ______school events ______activities?
- teach research skills?
- provide virtual access to the library's collection?
- organize the library's operations?
- answer reference questions?
- sponsor/support ______telecommunications projects? ______literary magazine?
- link to school-wide links like sports, social events, special events?
- garner support for your library's program?
- collect data?
- How can you use your web site to integrate the library's program into your school's curriculum?
- How do you find Internet resources effectively and quickly for your web site that add value to your curriculum, once you've built your basic web site?And Practically Speaking . . .
- What are your options for uploading/hosting your web pages?
- school server - find out procedure
- web page hosting sites especially for schools
- What is your support system to build and maintain the library's web site?
- What is the procedure/policy at your school for creating and maintaining web pages?
- Are there ____students _____teachers _____parents _____others with specific skills who are willing to help?
- Are there people in the community you can contact to provide support for you in terms of _____funding _____technical advice _____hands-on support?
Good luck!
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