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Our
Result(s):
Pekin.net
WebSite
This website was developed to give the community
of Pekin a presence on the web. District 108 trained several volunteers
from the community in website development, and each volunteer was
responsible for a specific content area of the website. Since then,
the site has grown to provide a large collection of resources that
all community members can use. The community website is now in the
process of being turned over to the Pekin Chamber of Commerce for
further development of the content areas.
SABID
The
ultimate goal of SABID is to make Pekin a better place on-line by
helping organizations in the Pekin area develop high quality web
sites. LC2000 staff organized, trained, and supervised SABID's high
school students who performed one or more of the following services:
develop a first-time web site, update and remodel an existing site,
perform a site audit, and/or train organizational staff to maintain
a web site. Organizations received the service free of charge. Students
were paid $6.00 per hour from LC2000 grant funds.
Student
Tech Clubs
District 108 established after school tech clubs that enhanced students
web publishing skills.
Artifact #1:http://www.pekin.net/pekin108/archive/97/december/webtraining/webmaster.html
Artifact #2:http://www.pekin.net/pekin108/archive/photos/webcamp/index.html
Artifact #3:http://www.pekin.net/pekin108/archive/98/august/webdesign/index.html
School
Webmasters
In
each school, LC2000 identifies and pays one teacher to act as the
Webmaster. The Webmaster is responsible for creating and maintaining
the school's homepage within Pekin.net, training other teachers
to use IBM's "Learning Village" homepage software to create
and maintain a classroom homepage, and sponsoring a Student Webmaster
Club. School Webmasters receive extensive training, including theory
and practice of Web design, Web-based marketing, HTML, Adobe Photoshop,
and various graphics tools.
Dissemination
Activities Related to Website Development:
Website Awards:
The district 108 website has earned several awards
for quality content, and design offered on the website.
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The District
108 Website was selected as an official Illinois Computing
Educators (I.C.E.) Web Showcase site for the 2000 ICE Conference.
Illinois Computing Educators recognized the considerable time,
talent, and effort it took to
construct our quality educational website. They congratulated
all the individuals who contributed to the construction and
development of our site, and announced that it would be showcased
at the 2000 Illinois Computing Educators Conference.
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The
Education World Cool School award was awarded to the website
of Washington Intermediate School, part of District 108. The
Washington Intermediate School website is developed by a webmaster
teacher, and a group of students in the junior webmaster club.
This was a high honor that was published in the local newspaper,
and local television stations also covered the story. |
View the Website
Awards page for a complete listing of the honors that the website
has received.
Literature:
Junior
Webmasters Program
Published in the Pekin Daily Times
Junior
Webmasters Summer Camp
District 108 Archive
District
108 Teaches Students Web Design
Published in the Pekin Daily Times
Washington
Website National Honored as "Cool School"
Aired on NBC News 25
View Video Clip (2.8MB)
Links:
District
webmasters created a "webmaster resources" section of
the website. These pages provide unique resources and tutorials
for the web development staff in the district. These resources have
proven beneficial to the staff of district 108, and have been used
by a number of external sites. Below is an incomplete list of some
external sites using our webmaster resources:
Presentations:
- State
Conference in Chicago, Illinois
District 108 Webmaster and high school student
Jacob Bland made a presentation to the Illinois Association of
Student Councils on how the community of Pekin uses the website
as a communication tool. Students representing schools from all
over Illinois attended the workshop, and learned the purposes
that a website serves, and what it takes to build a successful
site. Jacob demostrated how Pekin has used websites as a communication
tool to reach out to the entire community.
- National
Conference in Charlotte, North Carolina
District 108 Webmaster and high school student
Jacob Bland made a presentation to the National Association of
Student Councils on how the community of Pekin uses the website
as a communication tool. Students representing schools from all
over the United States attended the workshop, and learned the
purposes that a website serves, and what it takes to build a successful
site. Jacob demostrated how Pekin has used websites as a communication
tool to reach out to the entire community.
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