The Internet has fully entered the school environment. This was one of the statements made by the Minister of Education, Mr. Gilles de Robien, who was present yesterday at the Net Assizes event in Nice where the Nice Première association presented its new project dedicated to kindergartens and elementary schools: Scolaweb.
At the core of this project’s design is the Nice Première team, bolstered for the occasion by school teachers, school principals, and parents who came to lend a hand and share their daily on-field experience.
The Scolaweb Project aims to provide all classes in a school group with a real web journal through which they can communicate about their school news as well as the happenings in their neighborhood and city. This journal will allow them to integrate text and images, as well as video and audio.
But Scolaweb will also be a true communication platform among the different parties involved in school life (school management, teachers, city council, parents of students, etc.). Indeed, communication is a driving element in the life of a school group.
Why Scolaweb?
Because the B2i (Computer and Internet Certificate) now requires perfect knowledge of computer tools, their use, and their software;
Because it is essential for schoolchildren to learn about their neighborhood and their city;
Because writing is one of the foundations of teaching in elementary cycles;
And finally, because Scolaweb is a real communication tool between all the parties that make up a school group (school management, teachers, parents of students, and students).
For all these reasons, this association from Nice envisioned a website adaptable to each school to provide it with a tool equipped with simplified administration that doesn’t require extensive computer knowledge for its use.
Parents, teachers, and the school principal are at the foundation of this project. In constant contact with communication difficulties that can exist between the different components of the school, we believe that a web journal could provide an effective solution to communication that could, as a result, extend even beyond the school group.
Moreover, the educational interest is multiple with regular writing practice but also learning the use of a computer and its peripherals.
