Class Websites

I absolutely LOVED the class website project. As I have mentioned before, I have an 8 year old and a 15 year old. The high school teachers don't really use websites (which I find disappointing) but the elementary teachers do. As a parent I love being able to go to the teacher's website to get information about lunch time, spelling words, home work, class activities and events, and contact information for the teacher. As a future teacher, I can see many benefits to having a website for parents to access for information about the class. A class website would benefit the students as well. Details about class projects could be listed as well as links to suggested (or required) reference websites. Documents can be made available for parents and students (like field trip permission slips) through google docs. I can't tell you how many times I have lost notes about field trips or school events and had to go the teacher to ask for another sheet. Having the information available for parents and students to download could save the teacher and parents a lot of time (and perhaps embarrassment at having to ask for the field trip permission slip for the 4th time).