foolfillment: the blog

I wrote yesterday about the Royal High School’s excellent CDT department webpage. It is an showcase of the work being done by their pupils, and an insight into the varied software they use. It is updated every week or so and it looks as though it is all done by hand - that is, creating the pages in Notepad or Dreamweaver or similar; cropping and resizing all the images and uploading them to the right directories, manually archiving the old versions of the pages.

I wonder if they realise how much easier it would be to update their site through some sort of combination of a blog and a photo sharing site like edublogs.org flickr.com, and the community they could create around their work - I already know lots of teachers check it regularly, I’m sure conversations would quickly take place and the benefits for pupils (theirs and outsiders) would be tremendous.

One thing I really used to miss about their site was a feed so I didn’t have to check if it had been updated (you do use feeds by now don’t you?) so I went away and made one using page2rss.com, so if you want to be kept up to date with what they’ve been doing then you can use it too: RSS feed for the RHS CDT Department.

And if anyone is out there from RHS I hope you don’t see this as any sort of criticism - I think the site is great and I just hope that it doesn’t turn into a chore and stop getting updated, I’d miss it!

This entry was posted at 4:40 pm on the 8th of February, 2007 and is filed under CDT, internet stuff. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.