Teacher+Web+Presence

What does your web presence look like? Do you have a web page, wiki, blog or other communication tool available to parents and students? If you do please share the URL in the discussion tab above.

Here are 10 reasons to consider using these tools. You will find more and more reasons as you start this.

Share upcoming events Update parents on class happenings (save paper) Share class generated newsletter Ask for parental involvement on class projects Ask for needed materials for upcoming projects Cue parents to upcoming assignments Provide strategies for working on homework, through video or pictures Provide support digital resources that parents or students can use to complete a lesson Provide exploratory digital lessons and materials to build background knowledge **before** new units Use as a back up for transferring, rubrics, materials and worksheets that go with assignments


 * Tools to Explore: Some of the samples are teachers using with their classes and some are teacher resource samples.**
 * If you have one that you really like please share it in the discussion tab above.**

Check with your tech folks about this options, depending on the system that you use, there may be safe guards for protecting student work and images on the web and provide more direct parent access to gradebooks and the assignments there students are missing.
 * School based web pages:**

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 * Wikis:** popular resource for gathering information:

Wikispaces: www.wikispaces.com Samples: http://educationalwikis.wikispaces.com/Examples+of+educational+wikis

PB Wiki [] Samples: []


 * Blogs:** Uses a "daily log" format that resources can be inserted or tagged to.

Edublog [] Samples: [] Sample: [] Master List: [] Blogspot: [|www.blogspot.com]

Screencasting: Video taping your lessons for students. This is a great article that describes some of the recording software options available to make movies of computer based lessons. []