Comments on: Higher-Ed or All Ed?

By: hdavila

hdavila — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 00:51:54 +0000

Aslong as the galleries are separated I don’t have a problem with it.

By: eduStyle Blog || Blog Archive » High Style for High Schools

eduStyle Blog || Blog Archive » High Style for High Schools — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 13:35:47 +0000

[...] has been discussion here in the past about whether or not High Schools website should be included in eduStyle. The majority of the opinions were heard were that High Schools needed a place of their own. I was [...]

By: LSommerer

LSommerer — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:38:33 +0000

I’m working on a high school website, and I come to eduStyle because there are so very few high school websites that are well done. When you look at design or information architecture high school websites are not cutting it.

There is no resource like eduStyle for people working on high school websites. I’ve searched high and low for one, but it doesn’t exist. I’ve started a page of “better than average” high school sites for other people who might be searching for something similar.

I’ve visited hundreds of high school websites searching for good ideas, and the one thing that really strikes me is that nearly all of the good ones are produced by a handfull of firms. SilverPoint [ http://www.silverpoint.net/ ] created the Asheville website, along with around a hundred others.

I think that if you started including good high school websites, it would end up as a gallery for a handful of design studios. I don’t know that that would be particularly helpful to anyone.

If you do include high school websites, greater editorial control would have to be in place.

By: kickstand

kickstand — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:33:23 +0000

The answer is simple: Start a sister site for “Secondary Education Web Sites”

By: ccouldwell

ccouldwell — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 06:30:01 +0000

Well, I think we’d learn more from having high school websites than not having them.

I think we’re not thinking we are mentors.

Let’s help the high student tasked with doing a website. He/she is a colleague in our future.

And, let’s help the computer teacher (or whom ever) who was asked to make a website for his/her school. He/she is our colleague and deserves all we have.

Maybe we simply need a “critique” area for new website designs and for designs from newbies in the trade.

By: chris

chris — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 19:02:08 +0000

why cant you do all? at some point, you have to question your criteria for selection of sites anyways. It would yield a better result to include a good 2/3 of well designed sites that excel in certain areas. and then show the other 1/3 sites that are bad and these are the reasons why. That way you don’t limit yourself to an type of education which shouldn’t be the focus of the “Edu” gallery. Show all types of “Edu” and sort through the bad ones and keep most of the good ones.

Isn’t that the whole point of the niche education gallery this is? Show what is good and focus on that and show to a lesser extent the ones that are bad? Not single out ones that should or should be allowed based on the area or level of education they focus on?

By: Alison

Alison — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 17:16:55 +0000

It seems to me the Asheville site is a lot more like a higher ed site than a typical highschool site would be. They have admissions information, alumni information, and seem to be “selling” their school through student/parent/instructor testimonials. I don’t have a suggestion for whether or not highschool sites should appear in the gallery – just noticed that this type of highschool site seems more like a higher-ed site to me (and is really a great site, as well!) Maybe that’s the reason it is so popular, and other more typical highschool sites really wouldn’t be as popular because they would be much less relevant to higher ed designers.

By: Heady

Heady — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 13:27:17 +0000

If you’re going to open up to other education, I think you’d be better served making a separate site for it and providing connections between the two. edustyle has become one of my favorite destinations for higher ed design because of the niche that it represents. Dilute the niche and you will do the same to the user base. Great to see the site growing at such a rate that issues like these are drawing attention and lending to the greater discussion. Keep up the great work!

By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:53:19 +0000

Maybe we could have our really good designers adopt a crappy high school site. We could then mentor them into good design and then poach them for our higher-ed schools when they are grown-up designers. Anyone want to adopt a newbie?

By: Eric Stoller

Eric Stoller — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 19:52:54 +0000

Although it pains me a great deal, I have to agree with Maggie’s comments…everything except the part about me being a robot

I think Maggie’s karma should drop given her lack of imagination when it comes to how fast I can submit “awesome” sites