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

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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. Selection Process
Presentations
Committee Concerns
Follow-up
Selection

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

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

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

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

11. 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.
being sent to public regularly.

12. 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!

13. 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.

14. Questions, Comments and Demonstration