Welcome to

schoolwires

An inservice presented by Mr. Terry Toth, Spring Into Technology 2013

Mr. Terry Toth

• Teacher at JTL• 1991- present• Teach general computer classes and media design class• BSED Mathematics Education/Computer Science from

Kutztown University• MS Classroom Technology from Wilkes University• Taught many PDE classes through IU from 1990-2005• Design web pages for Bangor Youth Football, The New

Approach Cancer Benefit, and assist with St. Peter’s Church website in Plainfield Township PA, and contribute to the JTL web site.

Background Information

• 1999 – Beginning of web publishing in ESASD• JTL began hosting their own school web site• Students generated information for all pages using a

variety of html generating programs– Claris Home Page– MS Word– iWeb– Adobe Creative Suite

• Dreamweaver• Flash• Photoshop

Old formats were not consistent…

Background Information

• Moodle comes to town in late 2007 allowing teachers to easily post information to the web with a variety of helpful plug-ins

• 2010 – District begins to look at a common professional format for all web pages… looking for robust, dynamic, content with consistency on all pages at ESASD.net

• June 5 – Hello to schoolwires!

Advantages - Disadvantages

• Offers consistent format on all ESASD pages

• Every teacher can edit their own page/space

• No need for specialized programming to create/maintain the site

• Instant updates

• Offers the same cookie cutter format on ESASD pages

• Every teacher is supposed to be responsible for their own page

• Lacks creative input teachers and students like

• Students no longer publish to the site

Get Started

• Safari or Firefox… no real difference

• Go to esasd.net• Click on Sign In link in

upper right corner• Enter same info that

you do for proxy server• Click on Sign In button

Site Control

• My Account allows you to change your password and subscribe to portions of the site when updated

• Site Manager allows you to make changes to your web page on ESASD

Wait a second…. Do you have a plan?

• Before editing, know what you want to add…– Who is the content for?– How will it be used?– When is it needed on the site for the public to see?– Can you add media to the site to make it more

interesting?

What would you want to see?

The Unwritten Formatting Rules

• No crazy text colors or sizes…– Blue for north– Purple for south– Black offers great contrast on the white background– 18 point titles or 24 point titles– 12 point body text or 14 point body text– Paragraphs are NOT indented and are single spaced– Paragraphs are separated by a blank line

• Pictures…– Real pictures are better than animated clipart– You can use pictures of your current students, just don’t

post first and last names

X

Time to make a page

• These links correspond with the actual links on your page. Click on the link you want to add content to.

Sections

• Sections are what you find in the drop-down of each link. Click on any of the section links to add info.

Editing/Inserting New Information

This look familiar? Editing features are similar to those in Moodle!

Specialty Buttons

Font & Size

Text Color & Background Color

Text Alignment

Outlining Tools

Cut – Copy - Paste

Spell Check – Print

Picture Insert

File Insert

Movie & Media Insert

Edit Link Properties

Inserting a Link

• Type in the text you want to become a link and highlight it.

• Select the Edit Link Properties Button.

• Select the type of link or just type in the URL that you want to link to. Use the FULL URL!!

• Set the Target and the Color of the link.

• Click on OK.

Pictures

Calendar

• Click on the Calendar link

• Click on New Event

• Enter Event Title• Enter date & time

of new event• Add pictures, text,

etc.• Choose a category• Click on SAVE to

make it live.