As my classmates know, I am an elementary school office manager. The district is very small, approx. 3,000 K-8, with limited technology and finances. In our readings, I was very excited to discover information regarding school websites built from Weblogs. As my first experience with a blog has been relatively easy, I mentioned this idea to a few parent volunteers. They so liked the idea that they decided I should be able to design one and get it up and running for the beginning of school in September! No matter that I'm taking classes and have other obligations during the summer. A school website is now certainly on my radar, but maybe not until October or so. If anyone can direct me to more information on school web sites, it would be greatly appreciated.
From the readings, I can also see that the biggest hurdle will be to map out the various stakeholders' expectations. For example: Parents might want homework on the blog. Most of my teachers will not want the obligation of updating that. And, from my front office experience, parents will use the excuse that the homework wasn't updated so it's not the child's fault if it wasn't done. Where's the student's responsibility in all this? I'm sure there are many other philosophies that will need to be worked out ahead of time.
In the meantime, I will continue to discover the advantages of different technology as the course moves on, and I will be ever observant as to how they could be used in our future school website.
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