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Notes from Meeting with Lusher

Feedback from teachers concerning their interests for the Lusher website, 16 August 2000

--from the teachers at the Extension

• Organize the site by teams > departments > individual teachers
• Post expectations of their students
• Provide general news about the school
• Post the school's philosophy for integrating arts into the curriculum
• Gradebooks
• Teacher outlines
• Maps and directions to athletic events
• Assignments, due dates
• A calendar for the school, a teacher, a grade
• Post instructions for student projects
• Give famous quotes by artists
• Provide health facts
• Information about arts events in and around New Orleans
• Resources for parents on raising teens
• Resources for teenagers on being a teenager, growing up, etc.
• Have a conferencing system such as WebBoard
• Post students' work
• Images
• Virtual tours of places of interest
• Provide a means of communication with parents
• Have an address book with addresses of teachers, administrators, students, and parents
• Put the card catalog online
• Post a recommended summer reading list with reviews (such as done at Amazon.com)
• Post the entire curriculum
• Post the Lusher letter

--from the teachers at the Willow campus

• Provide resources for international families
• Post lesson plans
• A scrolling "URGENT NEWS" line
• School calendar
• Class or teacher calendars
• Provide a means for communicating with parents
• Use a virtual bulletin board for posting important messages
• Provide resources for parents on parenting skills, helping your kids succeed in school, etc.
• Provide a recommended summer curriculum
• Have a gallery
• Send notices to parents
• Post homework and assignments
• Provide a map that depicts that cultural diversity of Lusher
• Project plans and deadlines
• Resources that would help parents contact each other
• Post the card catalog online
• Post a supply wish list that would help parents know what's needed and when

--we briefly discussed "what we don't want the website to become"

• A source of excessive e-mail (we noted that it may be important to establish policies about response time, etc.)
• A way to avoid face-to-face communication with parents and students
• Outdated
• Unmanageable