The following are my answers to questions about my website project:
What is the mission of your school /classroom/ organization?
VISION: To advance knowledge and activate momentum.
MISSION: The mission of Grant County Schools is to ensure success for all students by establishing high expectations and providing high-quality instruction through excellent teachers, support staff and leadership embraced by supportive parents and an engaged community.
GOALS:
Goal 1: Focus on culture to build internal and external trust that ensures safe, positive experiences for all students, parents, staff and community.
Goal 2: Foster a district-wide commitment to learning for all – whatever it takes – in an effort to assure that students, administration and staff reach their greatest potential.
Goal 3: Prepare students for successful transition to post secondary education and/or work-force training.
How will creating a Web site support your mission?
Creating a website will help promote the educational process that is designed in my classroom. It will be a valuable resource for my students and their parents who are seeking to be involved in their child’s learning. My website will also be a resource for students who are seeking for opportunities for life after high school, either post-secondary of the work force.
What are your two or three most important goals for the site?
Provide students with the resources to be successful in my classes (content, upcoming projects, assignments, tests, etc.)
Provide students a place to showcase their art and skills.
Provide better communication with students and parents through uses of blogs/announcements.
Who is the primary audience for the Web site?
The primary audience of this website is my students. I will also encourage parents to take part in using the site.
What do you want the audience to think or do after having visited your site?
My goal for my site is to provide the audience with the information they may need in order to be successful in my classes. I also want my site to provide content that is valuable and entertaining (links to other web sources that pertain to my content) that may not be able available in the classroom.
What Web-related strategies will you use to achieve those goals?
Offering other web-related resources will help my audience use all the tools available from my site. I can provide sites for specific projects to help my students gain more knowledge.
How will you measure the success of your site?
Through discussions with students and parents and including a page counter, I can keep check on how often my site is being visited. A survey will also help understand how my site is being used and give my audience a place to voice their opinions or concerns.
How will you adequately maintain the finished site?
Once completed, the site will need to be maintained on a regular basis. Information will need to be refreshed, once a week or once a new project/lesson is started. If not maintained, my site could fade away and die like so many other sites before.
What type of web site are you considering?
My web site will be based on a static type of page. These are easily maintained and still secure. I also plan on incorporating a blog with the site to add class information/discussions. Dynamic pages seem too advanced and will have to be constantly maintained.
How many “pages” (entries) will the site contain? What is the maximum acceptable count under this budget (note: your ‘budget’ should include the time that you will spend building your site)?
The site will contain several pages including: a home page, a blog, a photo gallery, student/class information, a class forum, and a place where students can upload artowkr or pictures related to the content.
What special technical or functional requirements are needed?
The site will be created to appeal to audiences with basic knowledge of web browsing. I want my site to be accessible and provide specific content knowledge for my students. Everything needed will be just a click away.
Where will you host your site? For example, is there school or district webspace or will you use a commercial site?
Although my district offers teachers webspace to create pages, the features are very limited to other options. One option I will consider is creating a basic site that it located on this webspace that will offer my site as a link.
Will your site be open ‘to the world’ or only to a select audience (i.e., your class, your school)?
This site will be open to the world but will be focused toward students in my classroom. If I just wanted to grant only my students access, I could create a password-protected site instead.
How will you develop your content inventory? Where will you store it before you put it on the webpage?
Through research and development, I will create a content inventory based on what is needed to meet my goals for my web site. Everything that will be used can be stored on either my home computer or external hard drive as backup.
What type of web access does your audience have (i.e., do they have broadband (cable modems, DSL, etc.) or dial-up? Do they have home access or only school-based access?
Through a survey, I will discover what type of web access my audience (students) has. Through previous discussions, a majority for my students have Internet access at home. For those students who do not, the school provides several computer labs to use when needed.
What is the budget for the site (note: your ‘budget’ should include the time that you will spend building your site (figure out, approximately, how much you would want to get paid if you were doing this for money, any software that you needed to purchase, etc.)?
Budget for my site will take in consideration time spent to maintain the site (at least once a week/ a couple of hours) and software/hardware needed to provide content to the audience. Since this site will be maintained part time, I believe $500 a month would be acceptable compared to $20-50,00 larger sites need.
What is the production schedule for the site, including intermediate milestones and dates?
A production schedule needs to include the initial planning and developing of the site, content gathering, launch of the site, and maintaining of the site.
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