Home on the Web

By Richard Borreca
Star-Bulletin

Friday, April 19, 1996

Waianae's the place to learn
Web design

Waianae is where you want to go to learn Web design.

To prove that point, visit Waianae High School at http://www.aloha.net/~waianhi/

That's where the school's 180 multimedia students, under the direction of teachers Norman Chock and Candy Suiso, have the school jumping into the 21st century.

While many public and private schools have WWW sites that look like brochures, the Searider's page moves and tells a compelling story. Not only are there links to the school, but the site provides a rich description of Waianae's history.

There are even selections from the CD-ROM (that's right - these kids are publishing CD-ROMS), which features pictures and history of the Waianae area.

"We try to put in information that is usable," Chock said. "We just went to the state archives and starting scanning pictures; we surprised them, no one ever did that before."

To be so ahead of the curve, the school must be loaded with resources and computers, right?. No way. Waianae is rich in enthusiasm and poor in resources.

But students are staying until 10 at night to get a turn typing on one of the four computers. On weekends, the media room is open for 36 hours.

"Our facilities are next to nothing," Chock said.

Stop by Waianae High School; you will see why on the Internet, everything changes.


"Home on the Web" is a weekly Friday feature of the Star-Bulletin.
Richard Borreca can be reached by e-mail at rborreca@pixi.com


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