Recently, we as a staff were told to creat personalized teacher webpages. We were to add relevant information to our site including, homework, what the teachers wer doing in there classes, add parent e-mails to get notifications, etc. Being that I am a counselor and I already had a webpage designed on Shutterfly, I found it easy to transfer my webpage to the new site, Wordpress. Since I am familiar with creating a site and I am taking this course I was asked to help teachers if they requested assistance.
One teacher in particular was very reluctant to say the least. He is one of the older teachers who isn't too technical saavy. Besides his lack of enthusiasm for the technology he could
1) Not understand why he needed a website for physical education class, he insisted this should only be needed for acadamic classes.
2) He thought if there was to be such a site it should be a departmental one as opposed to an individual one.
His attitude was unpleasant and he exhibited no buy in. This was something that was mandated and he did not agree.
In using Kellers ARCS model if the steps were employed it may have been delivered differently such as;
A for attention toward the capabilites of the site as well as how the site can be effective, useful and successful.
R for relevance of why we were doing this or a need for this. A discussion before hand in a faculty meetingm perhaps.
C for confidence in creating the website. Professional training on how to use wordpress.
S for satisfation in seeing why and how it is important to have such a site and seeing the final product.
