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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.
First meeting of the school year. We did a review of all the new functionality in the now live Jackson-Reed website. And we talked a lot about what to do over the year.
3 Main Goals
- Maintain the current website – provide support as needed. Talk to Ms. Lawrence and other members of the front office on how best to do this. Customers & clients of the site include:
- Front office: Jessica Lawrence (head of communications), Tomiwa Omoniyi and Joe Bellino (back-end forms), Dionne Clemmons (Clubs), Marquan Roberts (Lockers), Elizabeth Levenson (College & Career).
- Teachers – department heads and club sponsors
- Students
- Parents
- Design: start working on improving the overall design of the website as well as targeting smaller sections. Tie this in with students from Graphic Design.
- Custom Solutions: start working on streamlining existing solutions using Gravity Forms & Views like Clubs, Attendance, Lockers, Schedule Change Request as well as brainstorming new solutions.
Brainstorming for Club Fair/Interest Meeting
Need to getting people interested.
- Structure for interest meeting? Little bit of WordPress? Little bit of design? Talk about what functionality we want to add?
- Emphasize how easy it is to create complex websites using low-code. And fun! Useful skill. Good for college apps and having a side hustle.
- Don’t just focus on your friends – try to think of ways to outreach across the whole school!
Follow Up Tasks
- Elizabeth – provide calendar guidance to Simone to get her going – set up calendar brainstorming page. I’ll add some of my thoughts to that and tools you can start looking at.
- Elizabeth – set up Meredith with access to coding. Meredith – you should be set up. Look at Selectors and Using Selectors in the Website Design with Advanced CSS & JavaScript: Website Building Series .
- LabCatsCoding – if anyone else wants access this is all the courses I teach. You can log on at labcatscoding.com with username jrhs and password WebsiteClubJR.
3 Main Goals
- Maintain the current website – provide support as needed. Talk to Ms. Lawrence and other members of the front office on how best to do this. Customers & clients of the site include:
- Front office: Jessica Lawrence (head of communications), Tomiwa Omoniyi and Joe Bellino (back-end forms), Dionne Clemmons (Clubs), Marquan Roberts (Lockers), Elizabeth Levenson (College & Career).
- Teachers – department heads and club sponsors
- Students
- Parents
- Design: start working on improving the overall design of the website as well as targeting smaller sections. Tie this in with students from Graphic Design.
- Custom Solutions: start working on streamlining existing solutions using Gravity Forms & Views like Clubs, Attendance, Lockers, Schedule Change Request as well as brainstorming new solutions.
Plans for Next Month
- Thursday, September 7th - Beaver Builder review and homework assignment 🙂 I will invite Jessica Lawrence to come meet all of you too.
- Thursday, September 14th - Gravity Forms & Views review and homework assignment. I will not be there. Alice & Clara in charge!
- Wednesday, September 20th - Club Fair. Clara & Alice in charge of creating materials to market our wonderful club.
- Thursday, September 21st - Interest Meeting. Clara & Alice will lead demo - getting folks interested.
Topics to Learn 2023-24 School Year
- Review of Beaver Builder
- Review of Gravity Forms & Views. View or data tables including types of tables, filtering and custom content with merge tags. Do we know this? Relation to club views?
- Posts - review of how to create them and how to use categories & tags to display. Modules in Beaver Builder to display posts. How we are using them on site.
- Beaver Builder theme - how to style the website.
- Intro to CSS - how to do custom styling on the website.
- Plugins. What they are. How to pick them. How to use them.
- User Role Plugin - how security works.
- Security plugins - how we keep the website from getting hacked. What do we do if it is hacked?
Planning Tools
New to the Website Club?
Welcome! First thing to do is get on our Remind at code @24b7f. Once you have joined, we will create an account for you on our mock website so you can start learning how the website is set up and the basics of WordPress.
- We are creating a website in WordPress to replace the current Jackson-Reed website that can be found at jrhs.site for now. We are working to go live in April-early May. This new WordPress site is pretty similar to the old one - but better looking.
- After we go live, we plan to work with teachers, students, staff and parents to improve the site.
- For right now, you can also look at our mock website - jrhs.site/mock. This is where you can play around with WordPress and it's also where we keep all our planning tools and documents. Make sure to take a look at the top menu after you log in - it's where all the tools are. Including the website club home page which will keep you up to date.
There are links to the left that will help you get started learning WordPress and better understanding what we are doing.
Our Help
This is general WordPress help that is geared to the tools we are using for this site. The first two lessons are the ones to start with - Basics of WordPress and Updating Content
Overview
This was the original proposal to create the new website. Contains useful information on what we are trying to do.
Timeline
This shows the general timeline of the whole process. You'll notice that we are behind a little 🙂
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Week of 9/11
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…
September 7 Meeting
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.
Website Club 8/31 Meeting Notes
First meeting of the school year. We did a review of all the new functionality in the now live Jackson-Reed website. And we talked a lot about what to do over the year. 3 Main Goals Maintain the current website – provide support as needed. Talk to Ms. Lawrence and other members of the front…
May 25th Meeting Agenda
Attendance & Locker forms signed off by Mr. Bellino – YAY!!! Ms. Clemmons wants to look at clubs page – she has new ones to add – how we doing on that? Alice/Clara – any decisions on notes & keeping track of lists? Gavin – photo club? Lily…what were you doing? Go Live Status –…
May 18th Meeting Planning
First one in over a month!!! Just re-gathering. Assignments: Alice – finish entering clubs Clara – Club View – let’s discuss Gavin – Lily – Drawing a blank. You know what we need …a secretary! Just to keep track of who signs up for what. Can you all see “Our Task List”? https://jacksonreedhs.org/mock/website-club-to-do-list/ Can we…
April 13 Meeting
Small meeting! We first reviewed what remains to be done to get the site live: Get Clubs done – missing H & I, T & W – Alice is doing Finalize attendance & locker request form exports to Mr. Bellino. Contact with Kids Ride Free person and set up form correctly. Finish Staff List Confirm…
March 30 Meeting
Alice showed up with five new recruits – which threw our plans a little off as we spent most of our time getting them up to speed. Which made me realize that we need a plan for starting new members. I started adding a new members section to the Website Club Home page. Those of…
March 16 Update
Wow – it’s been a while. Trying to get back on track post February break! We reviewed forms some including this flow chart for how the Add a Club process will work. Take a minute to look at it! Still working on some of the details including the suggestion that we integrate login to this…
February 2nd Meeting Update
We talked about home pages that people had reviewed and looked at the few mocks that people had made. We created a basic mock home page. Still need to work on how the site is organized and how our navigation works. What else??? Temporary Website Continue to make progress. Ms. Cebryznski approved a huge amount…
Website Club January 26 Meeting Summary
Fill out Form! Trying to bring some organization to the club. Take a minute and fill out this form before the weekend so I can look at it. Meeting with Administration Meeting last week with administration went great. You can see a summary of what was talked about here. Since that meeting, Ms. Cebrynski has…