SBI! is a great way to build a school website!

I have used Site Build it! (SBI) to build this site. I have now build over 30 high quality, content rich pages. When I build it, the SBI site guides me and tells me if I need to add more, and how to make each page sparkle.

I have found the experience to be amazing. From the very start, you have someone holding your hand and guiding you through each step. They really do care about you succeeding.

As my mother, sister and myself all started together - suddenly we have new things to talk about. I can't remember how many times my mother has phoned in a fluster or excitement to find out some small detail about her website. She admits she could have just gone to the amazing forum for the answer - but why do that when she can ask me and have a chat all at the same time.

It then got me thinking - building website always gets me thinking - before this hobby I was always getting stressed about thinking about school - these days I focus on websites and let school for the day!

My thought were this - with such an amazing set of software, why were not more people using it to build school websites or home school websites? Then I saw it - no one had actually told teachers of the benefits!

Why SBI! is the perfect way a school or teacher can get their class or school online.

How many teachers are confident in their computing abilities? How many teachers think they could sit down and create a really professional looking web site? How many teachers are suddenly informed they are now to become the ICT coordinator for the school – and lack any really experience in computers?

I have been there – I have been a teacher for over 9 years now, and I personally know what it is like to suddenly have a headteacher wander over and tell you of your new personal challenge - to build the school a great website as part of your yearly professional targets…

What does a school website need to contain?

• It needs to be easy to find on the Internet, especially if it is an international or private school or a specialist school. There are thousands of other schools the potential parent may find if they don’t find your school in the top 10 listings of the search engines.
• It needs to look highly professional – no parent wants to spend time reading a website written in a very amateurish way.
• It needs to be exceptionally easy to update by anyone in the school – the school’s staff don’t want to spend hours looking for a button or tab they need to click to open or modify a school site – I know – I have been there – and it wasn’t a fun experience!
• The website provider needs to be able to provide exceptional support – such that anyone can build a site – SBI! does just this. I have been through the process and it is broken down into small, easy to manage steps, complete with great mini-videos to guide you along, complete with extra support by one of the most friendly forums on the net to make sure you are not stuck or confused for long!
• It must have subtle ways of bringing money into the school – to make enough money to cover the costs of the site, without being obvious. This could be through building up the thriving bookshop on the site, or finding educational suppliers which whom the parents would genuinely enjoy shopping with. Don’t forget – if parents know profits from their purchases go towards improving their own child’s education, they will make a point of shopping safely through the school site rather than independently searching.
• School websites need to be interactive. Many school websites are just like advertising boards – they lack any way for a parent or potential parent to a school to be able to contribute their own ideas to a school website - giving them a real feel their voice is being listened to.

What would a teacher expect to find from a class website created with SBI!?

• It must be simple to build and maintain the site. With SBI! Everything has been made as simple as possible. It is easy to add or edit pages, so that a teacher can add links and information to help a class with their studies. SBI! even thought of ways of protecting your home page from accidental deletion!
• The site must be low cost to run. Most schools don’t have large amounts of money to spend on class websites. This costs $1 a day!

• It must be interactive – this the key feature – so students can write and generate their own ideas on the site and so as well as build the site, provide examples to parents as to the quality of the teaching going on in that class. Students who help build the site will feel greater pride and self esteem and become more confident in their own skills. They are also much more likely to spread the word about the site – just so everyone can read their contributions.
• It must be very simple to upload and run any graphics – such as photos of the latest class trip or the recent videos of the class assembly so that grandparents and people living far from the school can still enjoy the children’s efforts.
• It must have potential ways of generating money. It need to make money so it is self sustaining, and for someone to be able guide the teacher before they even start to build the site.

So why would I recommend the SBI! way? I have built my own educational sites for years – carefully thinking out each page and how it all fits together. I have been through the trial and error methods and now have built this great site using it and to be honest, I would now never go back to the old methods.

When you build a school site with SBI!, you get automatic feedback from them, telling you if you have used a word to often and what changes you need to make to make the page really search engine friendly – after all if your students have worked hard to create something to share with the world, it would be a shame for the site not to be top of the search engines. Don’t forget, most sites made by SBI! appear in the top 3% of the search engine listings… where does your school site currently sit?

The final hidden benefit from SBI!? It is teacher professional development!

How many other website builders train the teachers into expert small business people and teach them how to make the most of their skills and knowledge by sharing it on the web? How many other companies actively train their users in creative writing skills? How many other companies take the time to provide a link directly for you to ask all your hundreds of questions before making that final big leap?

Final questions you may have is : How much does it cost? If I told you it was less than 1 US dollar per day - less than a coffee, to build something which could make you, over time, enough to buy your own coffee bar, you would be surprised.

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