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Well, I just lost this page and am now recreating it, so I experienced the first rule of technology: Save your work!! I just want to cry when that happens.

Standard V.D is about using technology to communicate and collaborat with peers, parents, and the community in order to nurture student learning (Williamson & Redish, 2009). As a school with a focus on performance, communication is vital, and our website, principal email blasts, and social media are venues for that communication.

All calendar entries must be approved by our assistant principal, so that part of the site is his domain. Everything else you see on the portal, as well as the navigation of the site is my responsibility. Parents, students and the general public depend on the website for information links. Keeping it up to date and easy to navigate not only serves those who depend on it, but sets an example for the teachers in the way they update their own pages. I'll always remember the principal of CRAP –Contrast, Repetition, Alignment and Proximity (Cummings, 2010); And now I've added to my mantra that "Nothing should be more than two clicks away" (Krug, 2006).

This year, I had the added responsibility of moving the content of our site from the one that was designed specifially for our school, to a site mandated by our district. It was a monumental task that is still a work in progress. I had to maintain information on the old site until the domain name pointed to the new site, while building the new site from the template and apps. It's still a work in progress, and navigation probably won't be finalized until summer. But then, every good website should never be "finished." It should be constantly changing to meet the needs of the reader. In that way,it should always be a work in progress. Don't you think?

References

Cummings, C. (2010). // EDLD 5366 week 1: Graphic design principals //. Online lecture video. Retrieved on May 5, 2013 from []

Krug, S. (2006). //Don't make me think!, A common sense approach to web usability//. (Second ed.). Berkeley, CA: New Riders Publishing.

Williamson, J. & Redish, T. (2009). I // STE's technology facilitation and leadership standards: What every K-12 leader should know and be able to do //. Eugene, Or: International Society for Technology in Education.

Williamson, J. & Redish, T. (2009). I // STE's technology facilitation and leadership standards: What every K-12 leader should know and be able to do //. Eugene, Or: International Society for Technology in Education.