Exploring Websites

I explored many websites and came across one in particular that seemed to stand out to me. The Haddonfield Public School website was a nice website that was not too cluttered with information. It has links on the side and at the top for easy navigation. In particular I was very impressed with the high school website. Here you will find links on the left and right hand side that would be useful to parents and students. Everything I have mentioned so far has been common to just about every website that I looked at. The thing that separates this from others is on the left side and it is labeled faculty/staff voicemail, email, and eboards. I really like this page because it has a lot of information for parents and students on the same page. A parent can go to this page and find the email or voicemail for any teacher in the school if they feel the need to contact a particular teacher. Also most teachers have a link for something called an eboard. I am not familiar with these but they seem to be a simple and organized website for the teacher. One specific eboard that I took a look at was the on posted for Ms. Allison Rauso, a math teacher. It is here that students will find information regarding their homework assignments, announcements, and the materials that they need for the course. This is useful because parents can easily go to the website and be aware of exactly what their kids are doing in that particular class. Also students can always check when homework is due or when the next exam will be. Another reason this is good is in the case that a student is absent. It is very easy for the student and parent to see what the student missed. They do not have to wait until they go back to school to find out what they missed. I looked at other eboards and they all have the same format. Teachers choose to put different information in their boxes but they all look relatively the same. I like this idea because students will have many different classes throughout the duration of their high school career. This way students and parents do not have to learn to navigate possibly six different websites each year. There is one very simple design that they can use for every class.