Thousands of young girls and boys from Nice have returned to school. The city of Nice, aiming to be at the forefront of new technologies adapted to education, provides the schools in Nice with Scolaweb, an interactive web journal. This allows each school and class to freely equip themselves with an innovative communication tool intended to replace the costly and not-so-eco-friendly traditional paper journal.
As part of these digital projects proposed by the city of Nice, there is the school newspaper Scolaweb, which, after a year-long trial with 6 pilot schools, has now been deployed across all the schools in Nice that wish to adopt it. As of today, 17 schools have chosen to implement this web platform, which allows for the publication of editorial content, photo galleries, downloadable files, and videos. “We have received very positive feedback from schools that quickly took to the tool and are using it exceptionally well, evidenced by the photo galleries of the ski classes that parents could view the same evening,” states the Deputy for Education.
As for photographs, there is no risk of unauthorized use of images of the children because Scolaweb is fully secure and only parents with an access code and password can view and download photos of their kids. The platform is now perfectly synchronized with the Inspectorate of the Alpes-Maritimes, which regulates the publication of images containing students and had previously expressed this sole reservation concerning this new school platform created by the Communication Department of the city of Nice in collaboration with the IA06.
“We are very pleased with this new tool, which perfectly meets the expectations of a school or a school group. Moreover, the tool is very simple to use, and its features are numerous. Finally, new features are regularly proposed, making the tool even more attractive,” says Christian Jacomino, Head of the Château school, who is convinced of the digital use in schools, having worked for years on developing reading skills through his association Voix Haute.
Carine Mannarini, a teacher and project leader for Scolaweb at the Saint-Roch 2 school, also praises the tool while emphasizing the importance of project follow-up: “I have a more than positive assessment of the tool, but what I particularly appreciate is the availability of the Scolaweb team. The “hotline” is really high-quality. It’s true that it’s always good to have efficient IT tools, but what is essential, in my view, is to know how to use them with well-done training, which takes less than two hours with Scolaweb and its team. Scolaweb is a very useful, fun, and user-friendly tool. I involve the children in writing the articles. This allows them to improve their IT skills because they are more motivated, and it’s a significant aid for the B2i, which is done at the end of Year 5.”
“Our school council is meeting on Friday, and we are going to discuss this because it is a very good initiative, especially since the school’s paper journal has been gone for 2 years. And then, in these times of sustainable development, it’s an excellent alternative to the old paper journal, which has almost completely disappeared from schools,” says Cynthia, a mother and parent at a school group in Nice Ouest, delighted by this project’s arrival.
To top it all off, not only is the installation, training, and follow-up completely free for schools opting for Scolaweb, but the production budget for this platform is just as economical since Scolaweb was developed using open-source software SPIP, already used by the National Education.
Thus, the schools in Nice are ready to publish everything from the nursery school gazette to the weekly Year 6 bulletin!
Find out more: https://scolaweb.nice.fr
