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Chaffey High Web site sets standard 
for Valley

By Tina Ramos-Ingold
Daily Bulletin
City News Ontario/Montclair 
December 3, 1997 
Page 8


The above image from the
CHS Fractal Links Page

With the rising popularity of the Internet, it's not surprising to see schools with their own Web sites. 

Corona Elementary, Mountain View Elementary, De Anza Middle School, Vina Danks Middle School and Ontario Christian schools all have one. Their sites give an overview of each school and its programs. Some have students' work.

 

But the Chaffey High School Web site is in a completely different ballpark. 

Former Chaffey student Gabriel Barbosa created a simple Web site, back in 1994, to showcase fractals. Fractals are multicolored three-dimensional representations of complex mathematical formulae. 

Math teacher, Edward Wasserman, requested the site. 

"People kept asking about the high school," Barbosa recalled. 

Those questions led to the development of the Chaffey High School Web site. 

"That's the beginning, that's where it all started," Wasserman said. 

Today the Web site contains a wealth of information including the school's history and a virtual campus tour. It features music and animation throughout, courtesy of Barbosa, now an engineer with Hughes Space and Communications in El Segundo. 

Wasserman and Barbosa, 21, update the site every Saturday. 

The history pages feature information from old yearbooks. Most of the site's photos were taken by math teacher Annie Steritz. 

 The virtual tour features scanned photos as well as each building's history. Photos are taken and scanned into the computer by student assistants Ignacio Ceja, Michael Roberts, Jason Christensen, Raul Zamora and David Tannen.

Each department has its own page, as do some of the teachers. 

The "Cornucopia of Links" page contains educational resources, including community-related sites and the Chaffey District Vietnam Veterans Memorial listing.

The latter contains a list of the 43 Chaffey Joint High School District students who died in Vietnam. It's a special page for Wasserman, who has taught at Chaffey for 33 years. 

"Some of my students are on the wall," he said. "When you see their names, it just sort of hits you." 

The links page also has the Blue Web'n Application Library from San Diego State University which contains information on "every subject that you can think of," Wasserman said. 

Among the information teachers and students can find is a periodic table and a virtual frog dissection. 

The Web site, which is endorsed by the Chaffey district, has impressed many. 

"It's one of the best sites I've seen in any high school setting," said Paul Clement, earth and physical science teacher. "It has a lot of content in it." 

The fractals page is a popular one. Most of the tens of thousands who access the web site daily visit that page, Wasserman said. 

Another popular page is the one for alumni. It is Barbosa's favorite page also. The e-mail addresses of 300 alumni from the 1920's through the 1990's are listed. The list now includes future alumni. 

There are places on the site still under construction, and Wasserman would like to add even more pages. He wants to detail club activities, sports team schedules and the history of the school's president. He also wants to see students involved with the process. 

"The biggest enemy is time," Wasserman said. "We just don't have the time." 

The Web site address is http://www.chaffey.org/

 

 

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