Creating a Web Site

 

 

Why create a web site?

Teachers can use web sites in a variety of ways that may enhance the classroom experience or increase communication between students, teachers, parents, and school administrators. Many teachers use web sites to post student work examples, homework assignments, and sustain virtual discussions. In addition to these activities, teachers can post messages and articles for parents, showcase their student's portfolios, post learning games and activities, and host web quests. The ideas for classroom web sites are infinite. The list below contains a few ideas that may get you started on your web site journey.

Web Site Ideas

• Showcase student portfolios
• Share classroom activities with others
• Post class information, project instructions, and assignments
• Communicate with parents
• Collect work assignments (via e-mail or digital dropbox)
• Host a discussion board
• Post learning games and activities
• Recommendations for additional study material
• Answer questions
• Share ideas and interests
• Raise money
• Showcase classroom pets and projects
• Conduct polls and surveys
• Showcase student achievement and awards
• News, current events, and historical information
• Host student clubs/organizations
• Create a story web site (students write the story online)
• Create web quests
• Databases
• Pictures
• Video
• Music/sound/voice recordings

Who looks at classroom web sites?

The number of people viewing your web site will depend largely on the type of content you deliver. Common viewers of classroom web sites are students, teachers, parents, and school administrators. Additional web site traffic may include employers, recruiters, and in-service teachers.