Teacher Website Evaluation Criteria - 100 points

Student Work or Students at Work (20) Student created digital work related to classroom instruction Pictures of students actively engaged in activities related to the classroom curriculum Pictures of work created by students Parent Resources (20) Parent Information Page Contact Information Homework Assignments Calendar of Events Newsletter Syllabus Student Resources (20) Support materials provide to students to help support instruction (PowerPoint, links, documents, etc) Homework Assignments Calendar of Events Newsletter Syllabus Freshness (20) – site up-to-date with current content Functionality (20) Load time not inhibited by oversized pictures No horizontal scrolling present Navigation logical and smooth No excessive animation effects

This page is designed to help you start and develop your teacher website.

Website Do's and Don'ts

New teacher website addresses are http://teachers.greenville.k12.sc.us/sites/<email username> . Make sure to check to see if you already have a site before you request a new site. To edit your site use http://staff.greenville.k12.sc.us/sites/<email username>.

Website Guide - This is the newly produced teacher web guide - 27 pages.

Website Troubleshooting Issues

Submit Website Problems - only after reviewing Website Troubleshooting Issues above.

Onscreen Tutorials

• Too much horizontal scrolling (6:21) - NEW
• A Better way of Uploading Video to the Blog - New-works for teacher websites too!
• Converting Lists and Libraries Picture Galleries to Slideshows
• Why Should I Re-size Pictures? See a side-by-side example of why you should resize picures before uploading them HERE
• How Do I Re-size Pictures?
• How To Upload Multiple Pictures
• How to Create, Add Users, and Manage a Subsite
• Embedding a Newsletter on a teacher webpage | Example
• Creating a Slideshow for your teacher website | Example1 | Exmaple 2
• Stopping the Time-out Issue
• Working with Pictures
• PDF Your Newsletters and Documents - Free
• Tables - Part 1.
• Tables - Part 2
• How to Upload Images

Resources

• Website Guide
• DOs and DON'Ts in web design
• Troubleshooing Issues
• Submitting a Website Issue (after consulting Troubleshooting page)
• Acceptible Use Policy
• Embedding MP3 files - Media Player
• Embedding MP3 Files - Quicktime
• Embedding Wav files
• Embedding WMV files
• Picasa Web Galleries

Create a Site

The District is pleased to offer you a new, easy-to-use tool to create your own Teacher's web site. Teachers will automatically be assigned a new website shortly after they become employed with the district. Teachers will login to their site by clicking on the button at the top of each district website page (also found at many school websites). Teachers should use their email credentials to login to their sites for editing.

2008-9 "Best of the Web" Teacher Website Winners

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