Recently, I was offered the option of taking over the school website. I accepted, (eventually), and started thinking about what I was going to do with it. The old one is still live and you can see it HERE.
One of the things I wanted to improve was how pictures were displayed on the site. The pictures on the old site were out of date, and difficult to change, so I signed up for Flickr and started uploading! By tagging my photos, I was able to incorporate them into my pages as a slideshow, (which will automatically update when new pictures are tagged). For example, have a look at the art page.
I then discovered a wonderful application which uses Flickr tags to generate a wall of pictures - like a gallery. Take a look at the year 7 art one HERE. Again, it will automatically update when new pictures are tagged.
The other thing I was concerned about was photos of the children being put on Flickr. I decided not to go do this route, and instead still host them on the school server. However, tiltviewer can be set up to use these pictures - for example look at the recent pictures from the boarders ice skating trip.
This is not automatically updated, but using Picasa I can rename any number of pictures, and then copy them into the appropriate folder on the server. Easy.
I hope that these two methods of sharing photos of work and school will enable viewers of the site to get a real picture of St Neot's school, while making my new job as website administrator a lot easier!
