I think that school web pages are such an important tool for teachers, students, parents, and visitors to have access to. Most of these web pages are well structured, organized, and reliable. There's tons of information that the visitor can gain upon viewing such as access to contact information, staff directory, calendars, schedules and all sorts of other news. The overall presentation of the website can also be viewed as a general representation of the school. I've seen many school websites and the biggest difference is that some are more up to date than others.
In regards to personal web pages, I believe that every teacher should have one for their own classes. In this day and age technology is beginning to take over as we see many teachers creating their own pages. It also creates relationships with the parents as they are also informed on any events, announcements, assignments, etc..
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I agree with you 100% about school and class webpages. Not only is it easy and accessible for the parents, but it gets the kids (particularly younger ones) familiar with tailored webpages. When I worked in corporate America, practically every business that I dealt with had a public website and an internal "Intranet" site for employees. This is very similar to class webpages and by accessing class webpages, it really just prepares our children for the working world.
ReplyDeleteTaran said, "It gets the kids familiar with tailored webpages." And what it websites are really meant for. This also offers the students something productive to look at and spend their time doing. (Since they're already on the internet countless hours a day.)
ReplyDeleteAnd, Adam, it does work for creating and extending the relationships necessary to help each student achieve in the classroom. It's difficult to address each individual in the classroom all the time. Classroom websites provide an extra forum for communication among the students, parents, and teachers for the extra individual attention that classroom time ordinarily does not allow for.