Back to school!
At elmnet we’ve been putting together a website for a primary school. It’s an interesting situation – the old school is being knocked down and a new one being built, and a website is being produced to tell the story.
Over the last few months a mixture of people have been to the school and have spent time with the kids telling them about their profession, and in some cases helping them produce something to go on the website. There’s been an illustrator, a sound artist, a photographer, a creative writer and a web developer (that’ll be us!).
Our job has been to bring this all together in a web site which showcases the work the children have produced along with their thoughts about moving schools. There are animations, songs, interviews, photo galleries, a book, all sorts – and as soon as it has all been approved in September I’ll update this post with the link.
It’s almost been like being back at school! We’ve had a week to complete the task, and there have been loads of different subjects involved. We’ve built a database driven ‘Facebook’ style wall for the children to post their comments on. We’ve got some sections driven by Flash, others static HTML and others database driven PHP. We’ve got embedded MP3 players, a print ready PDF of the book that was written and also a Flash version for the web with animated turning pages.
“So what did you learn at school this week?”
