• Annotate, annotate, annotate -- and keep relating it directly to your curriculum.
• Personalize involvement of teachers and students
  • names
  • photos
• Highlight people's accomplishments
• Use your web site to make meaningful connnections between research skills and projects
• Use your site as a presentation tool of your information literacy lessons

• Aim to get one person or one department involved at a time
• Spread the word
  • newsletters
  • meetings
    • grade-level
    • departmental
    • full faculty
    • curriculum committee
    • Board
  • other established means of communication at your school
• Use a variety of ways to communicate
  • e-mail
  • written memos
  • discussion
• Present your web site as a can-do venue for beginners and experts alike

• Articulate your goals and expectations (writing them down is a great start) and communicate them clearly
• Be flexible - allow for differences in teaching and communication styles, time constraints
• Be open to suggestions
• Always look for common ground
• Follow up on all leads
• Use established collaborative web pages to encourage more participation

Continually aspire to higher goals for your web site and your library program

• Basic: Reference tool
• Intermediate: Align the web site to your library's teaching program
• Advanced: Integrate the web site into your library's entire program
• Ideal: Integrate your library's entire program into the school's curriculum, using the web site as the face of the program