MAKING A CLASSROOOM WEB SITE
BASIC SUGGESTIONS
GENEVA AREA SCHOOLS GUIDELINES
LINKS
BASIC SUGGESTIONS
Browse through other classroom web sites for ideas. 
Start collecting free graphics that you might like to use on your site. Save them in a specific folder on your computer. 
Decide the purpose of your site.
Is it for communication with parents of the children in your class?
Is it to post worksheets, links and research assignments?
Is it for staff to research, develop or share their own online resources?
Is it to showcase student work (on or offline)?
Is it to highlight student and staff achievements?
Plan the structure of the site carefully before you do anything.
Start designing your page using the HTML editor of choice. 
Start small and add to your site as time goes on. 
Remember web pages should be constantly growing and changing. 
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GENEVA AREA SCHOOLS STAFF WEB SITES
                Every staff member has the option to create a Classroom, Special Subject, Information, etc. Web Page which would be included in their building web site. This page may be created using Netscape Page Composer or a similar HTML editor. 
                The Geneva Area City School Web Site will only link to a staff member’s web site outside the Geneva Area School Web Site if a “Web Link Approval Form” has been completed and approved.Click here to view Guidelines for Off-Site Staff Web Sites.
GUIDELINES FOR STAFF WEB SITES
       Your Staff Web Page should contain educational-relevant information and it should be kept current.
                The purpose of a Staff Web Page is to inform the local community and school community about your curriculum, events, projects, and activities.
                Please follow the guidelines listed below when creating your Staff Web Page.
                A.  Your Staff Web Page must not contain obscene comments, sexually explicit material, profanity, nor expressions of bigotry, racism, or hate.  This also applies to any links listed on your Web Page. 
                B.  Your Staff Web Page must not promote or encourage illegal or immoral actions.  This also applies to any links listed on your Web Page.
                C.  Your Staff Web Page must not be used to obtain financial gain.
                D.  The text and documents on your Staff Web Page should be grammatically correct and spelled correctly.
                E.  Do not list any personal phone numbers, home addresses, or e-mail addresses.  The staff member’s school e-mail address may be listed for questions or comments.
                F.  Staff members are not allowed to use any photographs of students on any Staff Web Site.  Also the names of students (first and/or last) may not be posted on any page of an elementary web site. First and last names may be used on high school pages. 
                G. Student produced work (poems, stories, art work, etc.) may be published on Staff Web Pages.  The name (first and/or last) of the student may not be posted on any elementary site.  Publication of student work on a Staff Web Site does not constitute the student relinquishing the ownership of the work. Plagiarism is not permitted.
                H. Staff memebers should follow copyright laws on the use of pictures, graphics, etc on their Staff Web Pages. Please read and follow the rules for the use of these graphics at each site.
                 I. Your Staff Web Page must follow these formatting guidelines.
                    1. File names should be a descriptive name of  lower case letters, numbers or underscores with no spaces, followed by a dot and then a three letter extension.  Your Staff Web Page files should be placed in a folder named your last name. In the case of staff members who have the same last name as someone in their building, please put your first name initial and then your last name. The first file or page should be named index.htm 
                    2. Graphics must be in gif or jpg format.  Music must be in midi format. 
                    3. At the bottom of your index.htm page you must have your Building Web Site links.  Please obtain this file from Roberta Gray. 
                    4. All files for uploading to the Geneva Area City Schools web site need to be submitted to Roberta Gray.  Please contact Roberta at roberta.gray@neomin.org for more details.
                
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LINKS
School and School Related Clip Art
http://webclipart.about.com/internet/webclipart/msub64.htm?iam=dp&terms=old+fashioned+school+midi
Sources of Graphics for Teachers
http://edtech.kennesaw.edu/web/class/clipart.html
Tips for Developing Schoool Web Pages
http://www.siec.k12.in.us/~west/online/index.html
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Teacher Resources
GACS Home Page Austinburg Elementary
Cork Elementary Geneva Elementary
  Krzic Elementary Spencer Elementary
Geneva High School

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