Doing More With Your Website Pottstown School District Taffy Wolfe, Technology Coordinator Liz Niederberger, Zumu Software

Developing a New Website Background Selection Process Converting the Site Training Personnel How it’s going What else is planned

Old Site One webmaster Posting delays School sites not current Administration was demanding more from the site Parents were demanding more from the site Backlog was building fast

In-House vs. Outsourcing Current or new staff member Full-time vs. Part-time Bottleneck not resolved Variable Expertise Level Transition Accountability Hardware Maintenance Software Maintenance No staff to hire Full-time support Many contributors Constant expertise level Transition Accountability No hardware or software maintenance

Outsourcing Criteria School Experience Customizability and Flexibility Easy to use and learn Ability for many people to update Advanced Features - calendars, lesson plans, forms, image galleries, reporting Stable and reliable Willingness to work with the district

Selection Process Presentations Committee Concerns Follow-up Selection

Converting the Site Site Look Completely New Look Content Migration Organization Content Look Permissions Going Live

Converting the Site Content Re-organize the old content How much old content Move the content Created teacher templates

Converting the Site Fine Tuning Finalized the look Finalized the organization Redirected the site Redirected the DNS Site Live!

Training Summer training with supervisors, administrators, technology teachers, etc. Beginning of School Year Training Additional training and adjustments as needed.

How It’s Going Currently 6,157 pages Average 335 pages changed/month Over 968,521 page hits since inception More than 2,000 unique visitors per month. Site being updated regularly by lots of people. Email being sent to public regularly.

Cool Stuff Email Push Personnel Forms On-Line All information is one place. Community knows where to go for news Information is posted in a timely matter Let’s talk about Bud!

Next Step Help teachers utilize web resources to integrate technology into daily lessons. Utilizing more forms into the administration of the school. RSS news feeds to the community.

Questions, Comments and Demonstration