Developing a Successful Cyber Image (Part 1)

A quick web search using the words “school websites” will yield a multitude of results. It seems as if every school on the planet now has its own site on the Internet. The school website has become expected by parents, students, teachers, administrators and the general public. Schools are now being challenged to create and defend their cyber image. As schools increase their web presence the public scrutiny on schools has greatly increased. This would leave many asking, “Why does a school need a website and a cyber-presence?”

There are many reasons why a school may deem it necessary for them to have a website.  Snowcutter Web Designs breaks this need into three categories.

Celebrate and Publicise Your School

·         Raise the profile of your school

·         Display children’s work

·         Celebrate the successes of children and school

·         Advertise and record events and activities

·         Encourage feedback/communications from children and parents via a moderated visitors book

Improve Information Flow

·         Provide important and useful information about the school, its staff and its governors

·         Provide contact details and email contact to the school’s administration

·         Distribute newsletters, school brochures and other documents

·         Set up a mailing list to allow text copies of newsletters and other announcements to be emailed directly to subscribers

Help ICT Work for You

·         Provide class and club pages for children and teachers to develop

·         Provide quick and easy curriculum linked worksheets for lessons and homework (even interactive worksheets)

·         Allow interactive learning using curriculum based educational games

·         Provide downloadable teaching and learning resources in a Staff Zone

References

Snowcutter Web Design, Why does your school need a website, retrieved from http://www.snowcutter.co.uk/why.html on October 19^th, 2012.