The Web pages not only fulfill the requirements for the school's introduction to technology course, they also help students meet the service learning graduation requirements mandated for all Maryland high school students. To support this, at every level we infuse a few hours worth of service-learning projects into our courses. Since Web pages have to have content, we require the students to create a small site for either a community nonprofit organization or for a school organization. They are usually organizations the student is involved with in his or her neighborhood. We then publish the pages on our school's server.
Students continue to maintain their pages until they graduate.
The pages represent a variety of organizations and a range of interests. Some of the students' pages are informational, such as Dealing With Depression , Helping the Homeless , and Teens and Work . And, if you remember your first ventures into straight HTML, you recognize that it makes them pay attention to detail and get very good at figuring out what's wrong and then figuring out a way to fix it. Baltimore City College, the second oldest public high school in the nation, draws its students from 50 Baltimore area communities. The service-learning projects they participate in at City College benefit the community and give students the opportunity to practice their research and writing skills, add to their career or college resumes, and learn technology skills that will serve them well in the years after high school.