Classroom Website

I have never had the opportunity of having a teacher with a classroom website when I was in the public school system.  Technology has changed a lot since I was in K-12 grades, and I am curious to know how much it would have helped my academic performance.  It was not until I started college that I began using the internet to gather information about my classes.

*Below is a screen shot of my classroom website that I have been working on in TPTE 486.

I have learned that using a classroom website has many benefits.  Students can use the site to look up information involving assignments, or even background information about their teacher.  The website allows students to use numerous tools to be successful in the classroom.  The classroom website can also be very helpful for the parents of the students.  Parents would be able to keep up with what their child is working on, and feel involved in the classroom. 

In my future classroom I will definitely use a classroom website for my students, and for the use of the parents of the students as well.  The website would be a great tool to share my student's artwork. I would hope to take pictures of my students artwork and post an online gallery to the site for parents to see. This would not only let the parents view their students work, but would help the student gain self confidence in their artwork.  I would also keep adding resource sites for my personal use in the classroom, and for my students use on class projects.  The classroom website is overall a great tool to have for the teacher, student, and parent.