Implementation

Below is the link to the implementation of our project: [|The Simplicity of Creating Teacher Websites] __ Description of the Institution __ Chapin High School boasts 91 teachers for grades 9-12. Chapin is a small community where people tend to settle permanently, so the turnover rate of teachers at the high school is not high. A majority of teachers have been teaching for over twenty years. While the general attitude toward technology is positive, most of the faculty feels intimidated by new technologies, especially when training is limited. CHS teachers need website training that covers the basic skills to start the process of building their sites, as well as time to explore and create with the aid of support materials.

__ Target Audience __ Every teacher at the school has at least one laptop or desktop computer in his/her classroom with Internet access. The district has also purchased website space for each teacher using the School World service. In an effort to build communication and enhance learning, the principal expects for each teacher to have a working and updated website functioning by the end of this school year. Currently, only about a third of the faculty has an "active" website. So far, very little training has been offered to help teachers get started with their sites. There is a PDF "help manual" that offers cursory information to get started, but it is fairly inadequate and also hard to access/find for novice users.

__ Description of Activities (including goals and objectives) __ The Web Wizards’ overall goal is to provide teachers with meaningful information that will help them successfully create a teacher website for their 21st century learners. Our website is broken into five sections. Those sections are: Home, Proper Design, Content/Organization, Media Tips, and Web 2.0 Tools. There is one objective for each of the following four sections on our website.

Below are the objectives organized by the pages of our website:

//Proper Design//- Use proper design principles to design a professional and attractive website. //Content/Organization//- Organize a website so that information is clear, logical, and appropriate for the intended audience. //Media Tips//- Enhance a website using media such as audio and video. //Web 2.0 Tools//- Incorporate basic web 2.0 tools on a website.

Below is a description of each page on our website:

//Home//- Our home page gives a brief description of teacher websites and the skills that our website provides. It also gives a list of links to teacher website creators, links to other helpful websites on this topic, and our team members’ names. //Proper Design//- This page provides information on proper website design techniques and is broken into four sections: Graphics, Aesthetics, Top 10 Design Tips, and Examples. //Content/Organization//- This page provides information on appropriately organizing websites as well as the content that is provided on that site and is broken into four sections: Analyze, Design, Maintain, and Plan. //Media Tips//- This page provides information on using audio and video media to enhance websites and is broken into three sections: Create, Upload, and Embed. Links to video tutorials are provided in each section. //Web 2.0 Tools//- This page provides information on what web 2.0 tools are and select web 2.0 tools that can be used and implemented on a website. The five web 2.0 tools featured are: Voki, Spell with Flickr, Slideshare, Quizlet, and Flisti. __ Description of Assessment and Evaluation __ To assess our target audience, teachers at Chapin High School, we will be sending out a survey to the participants of our staff development program on creating teacher websites. The survey will be created through Google Docs. The questions will assess what the teachers feel they’ve learned from the staff development website and if they feel the information we provided is valuable. We will also try to assess what additional information the teachers feel could be included on the website or any changes that could be made to improve its quality. After receiving the survey results, the Web Wizards will analyze and evaluate them to see what changes and adjustments should be made. __ Timeline for Staff Development __ The staff development website will be presented at the beginning of the week of November 14th. By the end of that week, all participants of our staff development program will have taken our Assessment Survey. An evaluation report that includes the survey results will be completed by November 22nd. __ Staff Development Program (content) __ Our staff development program is a live website and can be located at [|www.wix.com/webwizards746/home]. It will be paired with face-to-face professional development instruction.