Gymnasium an der Gartenstraße (current)

Pictures of GymGa

In 37 years as a teacher at the high school "Gymnasium an der Gartenstraße" I have always been one of my hobbies, photography, having introduced.

Math/Computer Sciences

The trigger was a sick student who missed several weeks of classes because of hospitalization and asked me to provide her with educational material. Since she had internet access,

My Hobbies

My oldest hobbies are dogs (as a child Collie Tramp) and photography. At primary school, I started with an Agfa Isola (photo Dirk Böhling), a simple camera for roll film sizes 6x6, which at that time was about 40 DM.

Gymnasium an der Gartenstraße (closed 2016)

Since the spring of 1996, I am responsible for the homepage of the grammar school "Gymnasium an der Gartenstraße" ... . Within the framework of the project " Schools on the Net ", which was initiated at

that time, we accepted the offer of the provider AOL to get free internet. This approach was based on a modem connection. ISDN or even DSL was not yet mentioned. Since the use of this access was limited to a PC, the Internet for teaching was initially meaningless. So I came up with the idea to present our school and put on the internet at the address at members.aol.com/gymga a home page for the "Gymnasium an der Gartenstraße" , the first school website in Mönchengladbach. I received a lot of feedback and encouragement from former students, for example, but also by students of other schools.

Later the AOL access has been replaced by an ISDN access (free of charge from Telekom) and web space at the Fachhochschule Niederrhein (University of Applied Sciences). Some years later our school also got its own domain (www.gymga.de), which meant that I also took the email accounts besides taking care of the home page.

Until the beginning of the year 2014, the website was based entirely on HTML and CSS and PHP and Javascript scripts. However, the volume of the homepage always grew up and I needed too much time to keep it actual. So I created a new version of our website using Joomla 3.3.x. The implemented user management makes the distribution of the setting of contributions and updates over many shoulders possible. Furthermore, access to servers or documents can be granted for different user groups.