Joyce Losen, school communications specialist, accepts the CABE award for the district’s Web site tonight from Archie Elam, a CABE representative. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Jennifer Connic for WestportNow.com
The Westport Board of Education received a Connecticut Association of Boards of Education (CABE) award tonight for its Web site.
Archie Elam, CABE representative, said the Westport schools’ Web site exceeds all the parameters for the award.
“It’s a well-deserved effort,” he told the board during tonight’s meeting.
Joyce Losen, the district’s communications specialist who has overseen the site, said she enlisted a number of Staples High School students who understood HTML—the Internet coding language—when the site was first created.
Now she realizes the site is a little old-fashion looking and needs a redesign, she said.
“Our strength has always been the content, and that will remain,” she said. “We put up everything we can. I only see the site getting better.”
Now in semi-retirement, Losen said she is handing over the Webmaster duties to Laurie Martecchini, who works as an assistant to Schools Superintendent Elliott Landon.
—Jennifer Connic
