ABSTRACT
Last year I attended a meeting of my local school’s information technology committee and one of the items for discussion was the establishment of the school’s webpage. Talk centred on promoting the school and having a ‘presence’ on the World Wide Web. When I asked about other possible uses there was a suggestion that teachers might put homework assignments online so parents could check what their children were required to do. As the conversation continued it became apparent that apart from having some promotional material about the school available for parents (Do parents go online to look up potential schools for their children?) and news about the school (Do parents go online to read school newsletters?) there appeared to be little else that the committee could identify as worth publishing on the Web.
