One of your tasks for the upcoming school year is to initialize your school calendar with some basic events such as the start of school, the start and stop of marking periods, recognized holidays, etc. Of course you could enter … Read the rest
Does Your School Use Social Media?
Does your school use social media to communicate instantly with people following your school, especially parents? If so, do you know that you can easily make links to your social media sites available at both the top and the bottom … Read the rest
School Web Site Main Page Review
I have not posted anything recently because I’ve been quite busy performing a ‘quick’ review of the home pages for the middle and high school web sites. Even though this review only addressed a few selected issues, it still took … Read the rest
Issues with Improperly Sized Banner Images
(and how to fix them)
First remember to resize images with the aspect ratio turned on. For the school banner, the aspect ratio is 680×305 or a factor of 2.23 horizontal pixels for every vertical pixel.
I’ve talked before that … Read the rest
Student Data Privacy
With all the recent news about Facebook and data privacy, you might be interested in this article on Student Data Privacy:
https://www.schoolmessenger.com/student-data-privacy-best-practices/
… Read the restAnnotating Images
At a recent Open Lab, the question came up as to why we cannot add captions at the bottoms of all images. Perhaps they are thinking about captions that appear beneath images in many books and magazines. Or perhaps they … Read the rest
Social Media vs Web Site – Which Should I Keep Updated?
BOTH!
Consider the following. Social media apps and web sites are two different tools that were designed for two different purposes (like a hammer and screwdriver). One is not a replacement for the other.
Social Media Apps
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Parent Guide and Student Code of Conduct
This blog is primarily oriented to school sites but even non school site admins and authors can perhaps learn something about using External Links.
We have spot checked school sites and determined that while many have pointed their links for … Read the rest
It Is Your Destiny
Back in November of 2017, we asked schools to check their links to Destiny as many links were either resulting in errors, prompting the user to log in or simply did not exist on the site. We have noticed that … Read the rest
Extra! Extra! Read All About It – Using Recent News
Now that you know about the importance of Upcoming Events (12/21/2017 post), let’s look at Recent News which is also found on your school’s home page. Like Upcoming Events, Recent News gets aggregated in the mobile app with other schools … Read the rest