Taking Your Website To…

Martin SpriggsWELS Chief Technology Officer

martin.spriggs@wels.net

What makes a good school website great?

• School– Audience & Purpose?

• Classroom• This is art,

not just science or

Four Dimensions

• Design• Media• Interactivity– Social– Forms

• Content

Design

• Managing Color/Layout– Kuler– Coding– White Space

• Images– Picnik– iStockphoto

• Designers– WELSTech Wiki

Media

• Video– The new web site standard!– 3rd Party Embeds• YouTube/Vimeo• Animoto

• Galleries– Flickr

Interactivity

• Social– Facebook– VoiceThread– Artsonia

• Forms– YouCanBook.me– SignAppNow.com

Content

• Really Simple Syndication (RSS)– Blogs– News

• Edublogs• Promote event…

not institution

Stuff

• Links: http://www.diigo.com/list/mspriggs/wlstc2010websites

• Presentation: http://slidesha.re/websitenextlevel