Create a School Website - how to make a school website with pupils

Create a School Website - how to make a school website with pupils. This article is based on www.schulhomepage.de which is with about 4,000 members Germany's leading community for webmasters who build school websites.

I. Build a School Website with Pupils

The contents of www.schulhomepage.de were only published in German but not in English until the end of 2009. However since 2010 you find here an article about "Building A School Website" based on the experience of about 4,000 school website webmasters.

This article contains information on how to build a school website with pupils with the following topics:

  1. Educational Aspects
  2. Chacteristics
  3. Practical Suggestions - Safety
  4. Practical Suggestions - Contents
  5. Practical Suggestions - Design, Usability and Pupils
  6. Practical Suggestions - Interactivity and Creativity
  7. Practical Suggestions - Technical Realisation
  8. Legal Aspects
  9. Conclusion

In this article Markus Dange, webmaster of www.schulhomepage.de has tried to include the most important findings and experiences from more than 10 years of work with pupils when building a school website. Also included are many ideas of the Schulhomepage.de-Community with about 4,000 school website webmasters. Hopefully, it will help you either to start a school website right from the beginning or will provide you with some ideas on how to improve an already existing website.

Good luck!

Markus Dange

List of articles about how to create a school website with pupils:

Create a School Website - Part 1: Educational Aspects
"School website" in this article is defined as the official presentation of a school on the internet. It is approved by the governing body of the school and shows the school as a whole as detailed as possible.
Create a School Website - Part 2: Chacteristics
Create a School Website - Part 3: Practical Suggestions - Safety
Practical suggestions for the realization of the mentioned above aims and elements of a school website with the pupils.
Create a School Website - Part 4: Practical Suggestions - Contents
The pupils plan the contents areas of the school website with the central questions "who does what?" and "what makes our school special?". This planning can be carried out for example with computer and beamer.
Create a School Website - Part 5: Practical Suggestions - Design, Usability and Pupils
A userfriendly school website is particularly important: Every visitor should very easily find the way on the school website. Without a userfriendly school website design the visitors will be aware of the school badly.
Create a School Website - Part 6: Practical Suggestions - Interactivity and Creativity
The computer is a great centre of attraction for most pupils. They write E-mails, chat, use online communities, listen to music from the Internet, play computer games and much more.
Create a School Website - Part 7: Practical Suggestions - Technical Realisation
It has to be taken into account that several operating computers (inclusive regular data backup) and special software are needed for the construction of a school website.
Create a School Website - Part 8: Legal Aspects
The following notes don't represent any legal advice, but shall give merely practical notes. For the creation of certainty of law the advice by a lawyer is necessary.
Create a School Website - Part 9: Conclusion
The construction and the operation of a school website offers an enormous potential to work with pupils educationally on the media.