RTE-Extremadura.org: a portal to access Extremadura’s educative system

Abstract

The creation, development and maintainance of educational portal (Rte-Extremadura.org) of the Autonomous Government of Extremadura (Spain) is presented. The portal is addressed to the educational community and interested citizens, and its aims are to provide a global vision of the activities and initiatives and a meeting point among education professionals, parents and students; to study the actions and policies being developed and their legal background; to offer teaching resources of interest to the educational community; to disseminate and channel information and communication on information technologies (IT) between Extremadura and the rest of the world; to promote IT training and application in the classroom; and to promote the use of the IT in the region, through collaboration among its various sectors and institutions. A basic structure has been created so that users can include their own contents through a form. In order to achieve this a structure has been made available that enables people to activate any kind of resource or content, which they consider to be of interest to the community they addresses. The most dynamic, user-friendly and high-speed system for organizing, including and finding information has been sought, based on relational databases. A normalization and evaluation committee will be established to ensure the suitability and selection of the resources