The sky's the limit: creating a school website
This truly is the Age of the Internet. Now that increasing numbers of people have Internet access, we are ever more likely to turn to it for shopping, research and information.
This development has not been lost on schools. Not only are many in the UK now using the web to reduce the costs of, for example, staff recruitment, but they are also using it as a tool to market the work they do and the success they achieve. In fact, the latest figures from the DCSF show that in 2003, 57 per cent of primary schools, 82 per cent of secondary schools and 50 per cent of special schools had their own website. Yet it's not simply about getting a website up there for all to see; it's as much, if not more, about regular and effective maintenance.
This truly is the Age of the Internet. Now that increasing numbers of people have Internet access, we are ever more likely to turn to it for shopping, research and information.
This development has not been lost on schools. Not only are many in the UK now using the web to reduce the costs of, for example, staff recruitment, but they are also using it as a tool to market the work they do and the success they achieve. In fact, the latest figures from the DCSF show that in 2003, 57 per cent of primary schools, 82 per cent of secondary schools and 50 per cent of special schools had their own website. Yet it's not simply about getting a website up there for all to see; it's as much, if not more, about regular and effective maintenance.
You are spot on my sister the sky is the limit for schools.The must be a massive roadshow for e-education advocacy so that we can touch the sky sooner.
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