About our Website

Communication for the 21st Century

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The website for Goochland County Public Schools fulfills the need for communication among stakeholders in the education of Goochland County's youth. We publish our content in-house, providing teachers Web space for instructional purposes, including blogging and podcasting.

By perusing our site, you'll find examples of socially-enabled and read/write applications of web technologies used by both teachers and students. These include wikis, blogs, podcasts, and external services such as Google Apps for Education, Twitter, Facebook, and Edmodo.

Tools and Standards

Some folks ask us: how do you do that? This section is for you.

School Websites Powered by Expression Engine

Our webpages are coded with Web Standards, including ECMAScript, XHTML, and CSS. This site also uses server-side includes and PHP. The Website's pages were designed by John Hendron using BBEdit, Adobe Illustrator, and Adobe Photoshop. The content-management system Expression Engine is used as well to manage the website, mailing lists, and school web properties.

Our website is powered by XServe

This Web server is powered by Mac OS X Leopard and Apache. We also use the WordPress-mu weblog engine for our teacher blogs and podcasts.

Search

The search function found on our homepage is not intended for generalized Internet searching, but will examine only pages found at Goochland County Public Schools’ website. We have used the queries previously left by visitors to better our site design. Search is provided by Google using their webmaster and analytics tools.

Content Managers

  • School Websites - Principals and Library Media Specialists
  • Calendars - office assistants and media specialists
  • Static Content, Design - John Hendron, webmaster
  • Weblogs - teachers and administrators
  • Podcasts - John Hendron, TechTimesLive! and teachers through their weblogs
  • Guidance News - Guidance Counselors

about the technical/service of our Website to John Hendron.

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