How to build a website for every student without spending a dime on an outside consultant

How to build a website for students who want them in 25 minutes or less.

How to maintain that website in five minutes per month.

How to create websites to “show what we know” without paying anyone to make the websites

Some students have time.

Many students don’t want to learn how to make websites.

Some students want to learn how to make free websites.

Most teachers don’t have time for “additional training.”

Many schools don’t have funds to pay for training of the teachers or the students.

Can we create a list of websites

(One-way links to the student websites)

Without training Teachers?

Without paying for the web space?

Can student volunteers help make sites for the students who don’t want to learn how to make a website?

This is the key challenge.  Can the
costs be kept low by requesting
students to volunteer?

How can we set up all of the student
websites on a single GMAIL account
and allow each student to edit their
personal site?

Monitoring:  If the volunteers notice something that reflects poorly on the school, then the link to the student website is turned off (until the offending item is removed)

Conditions:  The administration will have access to the passwords of the link page (the page listing the links to every website)

People with “permission to edit” the links list	ADMIN YES	STUDENT volunteers NO	Outside DP TEAM YES
People with “permission to edit” student websites	Yes	Yes	Yes

Time for training	Students	Teachers	Schools
HTH model Training	1-2 hours of training, 1 hour a month to maintain	2-3 hours of training	$$$
“Free” Volunteer “student advisors” get service hours	25 minutes to start, 10 minutes per month	2 minutes (an email message)	Principal’s time:   Perhaps 20 minutes to 45 minutes Admin: 15 mins to give the DP team permission to contact students

Script
Hi, I’m a volunteer who make websites.  Do you know how to use gmail to make a free website?   

Would you like to show your best work to colleges?

If you want, I can help you get your school work up on a website.  Does any of this sound interesting to you?

Let's get portfolios into schools.

Let's call on student volunteers to lead the way and guide students who don't want to learn how to make websites.