The contemporary age is the information- and knowledge-based society, in which every school has built up the Internet and multimedia environment as part of educational world advancement and educational computerization projects. And every school has be...
The contemporary age is the information- and knowledge-based society, in which every school has built up the Internet and multimedia environment as part of educational world advancement and educational computerization projects. And every school has been capable of the Internet in 2001 and most of the schools have operated their own homepage.
Activated homepage has enabled students to make use of information and communications for education and, and learners have been able to carry out self-initiative learning through the teaching-learning activity using the web-based learning in a more active way. But there are many cases that schools have constructed their school homepage by investing many resources but left it as it stands as they have not taken advantage of it. This is because the detailed guidebook for construction and application of the school homepage has not been prepared and there is great difficulty constructing and using the effective school homepage due to the vulnerability of technical and financial support.
Therefore, this study was intended to propose the plan for operation and improvement of the effective homepage. For this purpose, it attempted to investigate the present situation of the construction of the school homepage and the realties of use of the school homepage by students with a focus on the secondary school located in Seoul and grasp the problem of the present school homepage.
As a result, it wad found that 69.2% of the elementary schools, 86.2% of the middle schools and 91.9% of the high schools constructed and operated their own school homepage. An attempt was made to pay a personal visit to the homepages of secondary schools in Seoul and investigate the present situation of their use. As a result, it was found that many school homepages carried out the simple function of public relations and did not have new contents added and updated and were not practically well used.
The questionnaire research was conducted to investigate the present situation of use of the school homepage by students. As a result, it was found that 40.3% of the students surveyed responded that they did not visit their school homepage.
The reason for it is that schools were n ot operating their homepage for students, seeing that they had no information for reference in school homepages.
An attempt was made to analyze the composition of contents contained in the school homepage located in Seoul and investigate the realities of use of the school homepage by students. As a result, it was found that the problem of the school homepage is that schools took advantage of it for simple PR as the media for unilateral communication, not making active use of their own homepage. Because schools failed to offer diverse teaching-learning materials or communication space for students in their homepage, many students were not using their school homepage.
To resolve the problem of the school homepage and construct effective school homepage, schools should operate the efficient cyber learning room including the home study, cuber classroom, homepage by subject, diverse morgues and the like. The school homepage should become the one for students by operating the cyber counseling room students can comfortably receive counseling at any time, operating the cyber library, providing the space for communication enabling schools, students and their parents to take active part and providing the user's certification system. offering