I have already shared how Mel at Westmere has taken my suggested idea of class experts and has created her own experts wall.  She even went to the trouble of creating and sharing a template for others to use.  I have been promoting the great progress and innovation that Mel has been achieving at Westmere and it is obviously paying dividends. I was in Buckland School yesterday working with their lead teachers from the cluster and they took me to one of the rooms that is powering ahead with e-learning.  To my surprise and delight, there was Mel’s experts wall template and my experts idea thriving on a class wall that neither of us have had input into.  Proving that great ideas need spreading.  The slide show above shows the images from Buckland.

I am currently working with two schools to design and revamp their sites.  It is interesting work designing websites for schools as each has their own ethos and philosophy.  A website should be something that acts as a mirror, especially for institutions such as schools.  As such, there is no ‘one size fits all’ solution for schools.  I have seen several school websites recently that have been ‘templated’ by the same company and they look just that, die cast.  In fact the more you look at these sites, the more you see the company that built them than the school.