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Presentation/Web FrontPage - Educational Uses of Web Pages

Web sites are increasingly common on the educational scene. I will not attempt to give an exhaustive list of their uses here - hopefully I will spark your interest and impel you to try your luck. Of course, if I've missed something really glaring, or you've developed a new application of this capability, by all means email me!

In the Classroom

• Individual student pages: This is possible if you can secure the use of enough workstations long enough for every student in your class to learn the tools as well as create their page. Individual pages are appropriate for reports or personal displays - but be careful: students' full names should never be displayed next to their picture, and no student can be displayed on the web unless they have signed a media release form!
• Group/Class projects:  This is a more appropriate method of using web pages as a focus for instruction, since the work can be divided up. One group of students could be taking pictures with a digital camera, one could be writing content, while a third was assembling the pages. All students need not know all aspects of web development, and you won't need 30 computers for a week or more.
• Feedback Forms and other Web Interactivity: Although instructions do no exist on this site, FrontPage makes the construction of a feedback form quite easy, so a class website could be used to gather data, opinions, questions, etc. Since websites are reachable from any part of the world, this can be a very powerful tool!

Teacher Web Contents

The way in which a teacher uses his/her website will depend on its size and complexity, and the frequency with which it's upgraded. There are teachers who upgrade daily, and their on-line students and parents thank them for it! A good general rule, however, for selecting what you should put on your web page – post only what you intend to maintain and keep current, and offer no hyperlinks to resources you haven’t yet produced.

Here's a few uses and benefits of teacher web pages, ranked in terms of importance and maintenance requirements:

·        General classroom rules, syllabi, phone/email/planning period. This can be considered a bare minimum to a teacher website. Since the information will not be updated frequently (very likely once a year or semester), the website will not be a method of communication between home and school.

·        The above, plus general scheduling: main instructional units and test/project due dates, field trips, other dates to remember. Since most teachers vary their schedule somewhat, this information should be updated to reflect changes. Due dates for major papers or projects are very much appreciated by parents – but the dates must be accurate!

·        The above, plus Internet links and other on-line resources, including (if desired) downloadable worksheets and assignment documents. The best way to have students utilize the Internet for research is to have sites and resources already found. With hyperlinks to those resources assembled in one place, on your teacher website, there is no need to fight student typing skills, or use search engines for open searches.  In addition, if you’re preparing worksheets in Microsoft Word, or other word processor, it is simple to make these universally available through your teacher website.

·         The above, plus daily or weekly assignments.  This requires more detailed and (as a minimum) weekly posting. Timeliness is important, but an archive of past assignments helps students who have missed classes.

·         The above, plus grades.  At some time, the lesson plan and gradebook database will be available on the Web. A simple version is actually possible right now, if FCPS was willing to pay STI for the service. However, grade posting currently is an individual choice requiring individual posting. Grades on a website requires a simple security system that any teacher can implement, but grade data must be created by hand or export from Classroom Module.