North Tahoe Schools

Tuesday, September 26, 2006

North Tahoe High School has way too many web sites?

NTHS has way too many web sites. Did you even know there were any? Well there are...quite a few actually. I'll list a few at the end of this post. The larger issue is why are there so many? And why do they all have a completely different look and feel?

My thinking is that TTUSD does not have a clear direction as to what makes a well thought out, coshesive web portal that shows continuity across all schools in our district. Is there a plan? I have no idea.

But I do know this. Teachers and coaches do want web presence for their class calendars, athletic events, etc. They realize parents want and need to know what is going on! But there is no dirction as how to proceed in getting this information out. So they find any web site that is committed to letting teachers and coaches get their information out! Not bad, it's great there is som much motivation. It gets the information out there, if you know where to look, that is...

Take for instance the ntschools.info site I created a year ago. I built that because the link from the ttusd.org site went to nowhere land...broken links, dead links, old data (years old).

So the momentum swing for all the disparate sites was due to the need to publish information but no district web site to do so. And most teachers did not know of ntschools.info, I come to find out.

My committment to posting info at ntschools has changed focus at bit....it now is intended to be a portal for all the disparate web sites that teachers and coaches are using to post information.. check it out.

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