2. WEBSITES
• A website or web site is the same thing as a web page.
o True or False
o Terms are often used interchangeably
Website is actually a collection of webpages
• In W200, one of the big projects is creating a teacher
website.
• As a teacher, why do you need a website?
Let’s see why…
3. Students, teachers, administrators and parents are increasingly
recognizing the value of social learning in both their personal and
professional lives. (Source: http://www.tomorrow.org/speakup/SocialLearning_2012.html)
6. IS MAKING A TEACHER WEBSITE WORTH THE TIME?
• School (and class) information is shared more
effectively and efficiently with parents.
• Helps to extend the learning beyond the school…
• Increases parental engagement in the learning
process and student achievement
• COMMUNICATION
• ACCESSIBILITY
• PARTICIPATION
8. VARIOUS COMPONENTS OF A TEACHER WEBSITE
DESIGN: Make your own brand as a professional teacher.
• Consistency of design elements
• Fonts, colors, decoration themes,
etc.
• Contrast to distinguish between
foreground and background
elements.
• Proximity & Alignment of relevant
materials
• Adding space, indentation…
• Spacing
• Some space helps viewers to
read and focus on the content.
9. Compare…(& Think about the goals of teacher
website: to communicate, share... )
Consistency Proximity & Alignment
http://www.007museum.com/ http://www.007museum.com/
http://newyorkscienceteacher.com/sci/pa http://www.pbs.org/teachers/
ges/teacher-sites.php
Spacing
Contrast http://ilovetypography.com/
http://www.raft.org/ http://www.arngren.net/
http://teachers.net/
Most importantly…
NO BROKEN LINKS!!!
Editor's Notes
Students, teachers, administrators and parents are increasingly recognizing the value of social learning in both their personal and professional lives.Students, in particular, have heightened aspirations for more effectively leveraging social learning tools to enhance their engagement in the learning process, access more interesting and relevant educational content, tap into additional opportunities for collaboration with peers, advisors and mentors and overall, increase their academic productivity.Despite this strong value proposition, school site administrators and parents continue to have lingering concerns about social networking, Internet access and the role of social learning tools.
