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March 1998: South Smithfield Primary School, Smithfield
Not many K-2 schools can boast an Internet site as complete and lively as the South Smithfield site. Hosted by a commercial provider (geocities.com), this colorful site has contributions from every class. It also has sound and a movie! The site is clearly linked to an active technology education program, and many of the lesson plans for this program are posted on the site. There's also a Teacher's Guide to Understanding the Internet (subtitled "How to Keep Your Job in the 21st Century"). As for the students, they're working on at least two online projects, called "Visitors from Around the World" and "E-Mail Across America."
February 1998: Orange High School, Hillsborough
Visitors to the Orange High School home page are greeted with a large orange tiger, the school's symbol. It quickly becomes clear that the site is potentially more powerful than most school sites: that's because the school has its own server and the site is managed by Lotus Domino, a commercial quality software package capable of managing a large and complex site. In fact, the Orange High server hosts the Orange County Schools web site as well, and it will eventually host sites for other Orange County Schools. In the meanwhile, Orange High students are at work exploring and trying out the power of their new tools.
January 1998: West Millbrook Middle School, Raleigh
The goal of the site is to tell the community about the school. There's information on practically every facet of school life, including classes, sports, club activities, the media center, and other programs. Schedule information is provided for athletic activities, testing, holidays, and other events of interest. Photography is used effectively throughout the site. A simple frame structure keeps the main menu on the screen at all times, so the site is easy to navigate. Animated sprites provide visual interest in many of the frames.
December 1997: J. W. York Elementary School, Raleigh
J. W. York's attractive and vigorous web site shows that it is possible for elementary students to build an electronic home on the Wide World Web. Sure, adults help, but a large part of this site is clearly designed and written by the students and for the students. You can read right through the site, and if you do, you'll learn a lot about the spirit of ths school.
November 1997: Grady A. Brown Elementary School, Hillsborough
Grady Brown's site follows what we might call the "resource collection" model. It doesn't provide short-lived information such as current school events, lunch menus, etc. What it does provide is a rich collection of resources and links for both students and teachers. In addition to Internet resources and access to search engines, the site gives individual classes a place to post reports on their projects and field trips.
October 1997: Perry Harrison School, Pittsboro
Perry Harrison is a brand-new K-8 school located outside Pittsboro in Chatham County. It's the newest of Chatham's K-8 campuses, and the web site was in operation even before the school opened in August. Simple but attractive in design, the web site seems designed for growth as the new school's program develops. So far, there's a staff directory providing for email links as soon as teachers come online, a page for messages from the principal, a page for athletics news and schedules, information on the schools pre-K program, and links to calendar and menu information from the Chatham County Schools site.
September 1997: North Johnston High School, Kenly
NJHS Online is a well-organized, student-oriented site. It features a series of articles (called Headlines) which change regularly. Its most popular department is surely the Homework section, where assignments are posted daily from most of the school's teachers. There are also solid resource sections where students can get started using the Internet to work on some of those assignments. Although North Johnston has only about 600 students, NJHS Online had nearly 15,000 "hits" during the 1996-97 school year. It appears to be establishing itself as an important part of school life.
August 1997: Charles E. Jordan High School, Durham
The Jordan web site is a well-designed, student-operated high school site. It is nicely integrated and easy to use.Among the site's best features:
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