Welcome to CoronadoExplorer.com!
The Coronado Explorer journalism staff is looking to live its credo, “for the Coronado High School community,” online as well as in print. As of Monday, January 26th 2009 the Coronado Explorer launched the “beta version” or “rough draft” of www.coronadoexplorer.com.
Now we’re asking for your feedback.
As students, as alumni, as parents, as administrators, as teachers, as staff, as local business owners and as Coronado community members, it’s hard to stay close to each other. Life is busy. However, the 21st century notion of “community” is less constrained by physical geography; modern technology allows us to build communities in all spaces, physical and otherwise. While Coronado’s “Fusion” site is a wonderful informative tool, CoronadoExplorer.com is created by students and is meant to promote more community interaction. Our staff intends to use internet, web page building, photography, sound clips, video, gaming, language translation tools and more resources to make the site-in-progress informative, user-friendly, ethical, interactive, meaningful, and fun.
Please surf the site and click on each page’s “Page Feedback” link located at the bottom. You may notice that this site is thin on content and structure. We’re working on that. To help us improve, surf and give constructive feedback about each page’s design, coverage, and user interactivity. Before beginning, read the descriptions of each site page below. In the words of Kurt Vonnegut, “so it goes…”
Front Page
Current lead stories and a gateway to highlighted content on the entire website
Campus Happenings page (page editor: Jennifer Smith)
News (coverage and previews of school events, Coronado community events, and organizations such as P.T.O. and the
Coronado Foundation for the Future)
Clubs (informative “beat” reporting on campus clubs; coverage and previews of club events)
Opinionation (opinion articles written by Explorer staff members; opinion polls voted on by coronadoexplorer.com surfers)
Academia (page editor: Daniel Nemet)
To include informative “beat” reporting of Coronado’s academic departments; features and articles about our academic achievers, educators, dynamic educational practices; with help from our academic departments, online “gallery” of outstanding class work that highlights our brightest and models our best learning practices; online learning games, tutorials, and web pages for fun learning and guided online tutoring
Sports (page editor: Daniel Nemet)
Will primarily cover varsity sports as well as informative “beat” coverage of JV and freshman teams. In addition to C.H.S. teams, feature coverage on the collegiate and professional sports world; Sports Educated section as a collection of links to learn about nutrition, training, technique, sports history, and more
Entertainment (page editor: Rene Romero)
Emphasizes off-campus entertainment; staff contributors will preview and review modern and classic film, reads, music, games, and more; beyond covering, will highlight culturally rich events for Coronado students and families to attend in the Phoenix metropolitan area
Economy
Advertisers can post coupons for Coronado community patrons to print and use; potential employers can post jobs for Coronado students; students will eventually be able to learn basics of finance and money management; perhaps in the future, students could post items available for sale
Dontastic Creations
Serves to create an online “gallery” and community for Coronado students that create: the painters, the musicians, the photographers, the poets, the short story writers, the videogame designers, and others will have a space to get recognition and learn about the creative work of fellow Coronado Dons; staff cartoonists will have their cartoons and visual submissions from the Coronado Explorer’s “Funny Page” published here; will include collected links and articles to refine skills across various artistic disciplines; will include feature stories on C.H.S.’s creators
Footnote: In particular, the Explorer staff recognizes Amber Erickson (Editor-in-Chief), Sean Essary (Explorer.com Co-Creator), Daniel Nemet (Explorer.com Co-Creator), Susan Farretta (technical assistance), Steve Schrock (technical assistance), Coronado Administration, and other Coronado Explorer staff members. If interested in helping the production, advertising, or joining next year’s Coronado Explorer staff, e-mail wgerchick@susd.org or stop by room B244. |
