Gimmicks
“SSP Website of the Month” School Website Competition
Do you want your school website to be cited as the SSP Website of the Month?
Every month, a school website hosted by the Smart Schools Program will be named “SSP Website of the Month” and will be featured in the SSP website. Monthly winners are in for exciting prizes plus a chance to win the Community Choice Award!
Get everyone involved! Learn and have fun together as you work on getting your website featured for the month.
Click here to vote for your favorite website!
Mechanics
The “SSP Website of the Month” Competition is the Smart Schools Program (SSP) website’s rewards and recognition program for the SSP-hosted websites.
The competition is open to all SSP partner high schools with official school website hosted by SSP. The school website must be owned, developed, and maintained by the school.
Suggested Elements of the School Website
- Must feature the school (philosophy, history, etc.), and school events, activities, achievements, and other features
- Must have link to Smart Schools Program website
- Must show involvement of teachers and students in maintaining the website (web team, activities, etc.)
Criteria for Evaluation
The nominated school websites will be evaluated based on the following criteria:
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Content - 30%
Content must be relevant and appealing to the school, teachers, students, and the community
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Website Design - 15%
Usability, organization, color, typography, layout, aesthetics of the website design.
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Involvement of Teachers and Students - 30%
School must have a website team composed of teachers and students
Must show a documentation (photos, schedules, tasks, etc.) of the team’s collaborationDocumentation of collaboration can be shown in the school website through the feature stories or bulletin
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Website Maintenance - 25%
Pages of the school website must show updated content
Links in the pages must be live and working
Awards and Prizes
- Every month, there will be nominated school websites which will be featured in the SSP website
- Qualification for nomination:
- Website is completely set up (as of monthly cut-off)
- No “under construction” pages
- Website uploaded in the middle of the month will be nominated on the succeeding month
- One website will be awarded “SSP Website of the Month” and one special award, the “Community Choice Award,” will be given to the nominated website with the most number of votes earned via the Smart Schools online poll.
- Winner website and its web team will be featured in the SSP website.
- Members of the winning web team will receive tokens from SSP.
- The winning school will receive 30 points for the upcoming “School Mo Panalo” Points and Rewards System.
(Published 10 June 2008, Smart Communications, Inc.)
