barney

Hello--
I'd like to hear from colleagues about:
1. Who maintains the website at your school?
2. How much time is this expected to take?
3. If a teacher maintains it is it done during classtime (with students'
assistance)
or does the teacher receive a stipend above regular salary?
4. Can you provide the amount of hours per week it takes to properly
maintain a good, active website?
Thanks,

barney

I am the web master for my school. I've been working ahead of others in
the county to develop a more advanced web site so there is not expected
time that I should spend on it. I like to update it at least once a
month.

I have tried using students to help with the website (when I was
teaching a Media Arts class) and found that it took longer than doing
myself. There would, however, be merit in this as a learning opportunity
for students.

I don't receive a stipend for the web site work. I consider it part of
my duties as a librarian and instructional technologist.

I don't work on it every week, but the monthly update takes anywhere
from 8 hours up to about 24 unless I do a major overhaul which takes
considerably longer.

barney

I maintain our website, www.sageridge.org , and spend about two hours per
week on it minimum. I spend still more time developing banners and buttons
to promote school events.

I have never been granted enough time to do a complete redesign of the site,
which is what I want to do...to make it more user centric. Ideally the web
master should set the tone, framework of the site and then get each
department to publish there own stuff...maintaining a consistent theme in
the process. I have this pretty well worked out with the faculty and their
individual sites, and then all the other buttons you see on the left
side...basically each a department. I end up being the editor and layout
master. Occasionally, I develop a sub-site from the ground up and then turn
it over to the department...like I did with Academics, development,
athletics, drama, etc.

The faculty sites are done during prep or after hours and here it is
required of them.

At our school if I spend less than two hours on it...it gets stale...when I
had more time I had all sorts of sections with constantly updated
content...but that takes far more time than people realize. I don't think
it is unreasonable for me to say it takes about 1-4 hours per
department/teacher per week to maintain the entire site.

I have added several tools to monitor the site that do things like check for
errors...I also use some pretty good software to maintain it-Dreamweaver.

As I move into the world of AP computer science though, and start teaching
more, I will get more upper school students to develop and maintain sections
of the site. Currently, we only have about 25 in our upper school...so my
few techheads maintain the robotics portion of the site only.

Hope this helps.

diggin4it

Surely its better to involve the children. They can learn all about web site ownership and development.

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