Vision for the project...vision for the project...vision for the project?  The Boggs Educational Center will be a place-based community charter school that aims to nurture critical thinkers.  We already have a website.  Go to: www.boggseducationalcenter.org.  For my major media project I would like to have developed tools and ideas to improve and expand the capabilities of our site.  I love what has already been created.  Ben, our web guy, is AMAZING!  The vision for my project is to put things in place on our website to create more internet traffic, to develop our blog, and to learn how to use the site as a tool for recruitment.

Ideas for the project...ideas for the project...ideas for the project?  Creating tabs? A parent resource tab? A link to twitter and facebook?  A photos link?  A youtube link?  Can someone in the video class make a video for our site?  I'm willing to link up with a video person to collaborate, any takers?  A youth resource tab? Music?  Art? An option to view curriculum? The option to click on something and hear a poem? An online fundraising strategy?  The ideas are a work in progress.

I am planning to investigate the functionality of other community/place-based schools websites.  I'm planning on investigating transformative education.  I'm planning on researching and learning more about the demographics of the area we plan to settle into.  I want to investigate marketing and advertising techniques.  All of these things will help us grow the site.  When these 20 weeks are over, I will continue to develop and maintain our website.

In order to complete my project, I'll need to learn the skills to do what is stated above.  What is that, programming?  I don't even know the technical terms!  Web development skills?  I need to learn how to add text, tabs, links, video, audio, and graphics.  I'll need to know how to put information on the site.  I need to know how to add facebook and twitter links.