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Tasks: Elsa is going to make a new graphic with just A days and B days, and a 2 hour delay graphic Lily is continuing with her department page templates (part of her work didn’t get saved) Claire and Riley are going to send us a recap of what Mr. Thompson said when they met with him Simone wants to continue plug-in work at the next Monday working group  

Good meeting last week – here are Alice’s Notes from meeting: Simone is going to find an automatic instagram plugin This should be a plugin that would take a post from WP and create an instagram post from it, correct? Maria is going to make QR codes for the email pictures in thing (one for landing page, one for starting an email) I need some guidance on what to tell her for how she should complete this. She said she could create QR codes, so should I tell her to just create a page on the mock and have the QR send you there, and then another QR to just take people to their emails and see if it will email to us (jacksonreeddc@gmail.com and websiteclubjr@gmail.com or whichever email it should be?) Am I making sense? Is that what I should tell her? Riley and Claire are going to talk to Mr. Thompson and create a tech help page Should they be doing this on the mock? Like as a test page that they can create and we can review in our meeting next week? And then in terms of talking to Mr. Thompson, they should ask him about what he…

Going into the Holiday break…almost.  Met with Ms. Lawrence this Monday.  Our goals for getting up by January: Home Page Redesign – Francesca & Meredith & Sage working on.  This includes reworking the navigation – main and footer.  Maybe add top? Course Catalog – Elizabeth working on – basic table is created – fine tune views for each Department page and populate. Opportunity Table – already created an Opportunity Table for the school – goal is to get all scholarships in, merge with Academies and set up views for certain pages.  Clara & Elizabeth working on. Submit Updates Form:  Once we finalize front page design – we will tweak this. Flyer Page – we can hook this up to the TVs in atrium.  Need to redesign current flyers to be landscape, create a page that is just for tvs – no header/footer – just slider going through current flyers.  And either create a flyer page for the website or incorporate into home page. We are aiming for incremental improvements – not huge ones – easier for everyone 🙂  Check out the Website To Do list to see what you are assigned or to sign up for a task!

No website club meeting last week due to Turkey Day.  However we had a productive Monday working group.  I would strongly encourage all of you to come! Monday’s Activities Alice D finished up the new Policies & Procedures page and it is live on the main site.  Yeah!  She is now working on getting familiar with the College & Career page(s). Simone has discovered that all the good translate plugins seem to require money – she’s summarizing her findings so we can pick one. Clara update the Transcript & Diploma request form with new conditional logic. Sage is working on coming up with suggestions to redesign and clean up the nav – both the header menu and the footer. Tuesday’s Meetings I had two meetings today – one with Ms. Lorenzo the head of three of the academies and one with Ms. Lawrence.  Read the summaries as they impact you. Academies We are going to make an Academies website based on the current SciMaTech website. However, it will be a spot for all the Academies.  We envision a home page with cute icons and a brief description to leap to a landing page for each Academy. The three old SciMaTech…

The bulk of this meeting was devoted to review the home page redesign.   We looked at Clara and Meredith‘s teams pages which after technical difficulties were very similar.   We agreed on the following features: Slider up top.  Starting for now with our standard JR slide. But adding a tag onto the site to put things in the slider. Do we also want to set expiration dates? What are the guidelines for image size to users? What height do we want? Will it show on mobile? Should we create it using a Post Carousel, a View or looking at some more complicated plugins.  Clara is Working on. Button Row – this will be key buttons used to get quickly to places. Style – circular?  Green? What links?  Attendance Form, Staff List, College and Career definitely – Where should Athletics and The Beacon live ?  Button row or small top menu? News & Updates section – I am still torn on how this should be displayed – thoughts? Key Events – 3-4 upcoming key events. Weekly events too or is just key enough? Three As. Club Section Athletics Section Bell Schedule Other goings on at the meeting – Ms. Lawrence came!  And…

Roles Talk about roles quickly – here’s a very rough org chart! Everyone should take a minute and check out the Tools->Interest Table to see if the general team they were assigned matches. You can change this by clicking on Enable Inline Edit link in the top right corner.  Then, click on the square you want to change – a pop-up window should appear letting you edit.  Remember to click Save when done. Website Brainstorming Decide what we want to see on Home Page Spent 10  minutes in small groups updating Google Jamboard each looking at site. Summarize what we like as group.  Look at Pages 9 & 10 of the Jamboard for a summary of what we like and don’t like so far. Split back into groups to make mock home pages: Simone:  Micah, Alex, Lola, Rohini Meredith: Eva, Riley, Willa, Elsa, Lily Clara:  Alice D, Sage, Zara, Leila Alice P: Claire, Anna, Lily C., Francesca Make Your Own Mock by Thursday, October Taking into consideration everything that we said we wanted to change and keep, and what you liked/didn’t like in the other Websites, start by making a SKETCH of what you think the new home page should…

This Week’s Update First official meeting was last week. We got everyone to create an account on our mock site and fill out an interest form. I was supposed to get a WordPress course up by the weekend but ran into issues with the plugin I normally use so researched and switched to a new one. That said – the first three lessons of the course are up – go try to take them over the weekend.  When you log into the mock site – you will see the course. This Week – Home Page Redesign Start Quick lesson on basics of design Look at analytics of our website – what our people using. Look at websites of other school systems for ideas. Combine these three things to create mock home page designs.

Preparing for the Club Fair Alice is going to print flyers and Remind Code for club fair. And get candy for our table. Clara’s making a poster. Both are ready with talking points. Thursday Meeting: Review and get feedback of Club Fair material Review and work on Beaver Builder pages Baked goods! Next Week: Club Fair Alice/Clara/Others?  will come up with draft for interest club meeting. And then virutally to consult to finalize.

To do: Meet Ms. Lawrence Review Last Weeks Notes Review plans for Club Fair & Interest Club Review Beaver Builder Beaver Builder: Make this page in jrhs.site/mock Can find Help here.