[coreyk]

Hello,

Being structured similar to a corporation, team 103 is divided into three departments. Under each department are sub-departments which feature specific team functions.

Under PR/Marketing is a website team that creates, modifies, and deletes website content on a daily basis. This involves changing upcoming events, images, posting newsletters, etc. However, these members are not only involved in the website aspects of the team but also deal with the animation and marketing departments and their included functions. This aids in utilizing all of talents of an individual member. These members are titled the residential website experts and are trained to be able to use programs such as Macromedia Flash and Photoshop as well as required to be familiar with coding such as HTML and php.

In response to your question I would not necessarily try to involve members that aren’t interested in web design or do not have quality writing skills. This is because they will lack productivity in doing something this has no interest to them. Instead organize your team to form a website department that works as a secondary role for those already involved in other activities. For example, take the best writer from your newsletter staff and have them in charge of content, take the most artistic and have them responsible for modifying, resizing, and posting images, etc. Of course all of these members need to know HTML coding, which is not too complex for what they are doing. To accomplish this instruct an HTML course after school so that they are able to take a role in the website. This way more than one or two people share the duty and there are members from other grade levels that are able to train new members after an expert member graduates.

It is nearly impossible to involve every team member with the website because of the amount of time it takes and the large amount of other work that needs to be completed. Focus on a few members that have both interest and talent in the area, train them, and assign them specific roles to produce a website team of members that are skilled, productive, and will essentially be able to accomplish any web related task.

Please contact me if you have any questions.

-Corey