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Photo: L. Helvey, October 5, 2012 A Class Web Site connects home and school. It can provide many benefits to students, parents and teachers. It can host assignments, lessons, files or handouts for students to download, and even provide a blog opportunities where students and teachers can communicate outside of the classroom. As a result, students' confidence and satisfaction with academic performance is built when they are motivated to use technology tools and resources, like a class web site because they are given multiple facets to receive, review and retain information, as well as apply or demonstrate it.

I utilize a class web site with my students and their parents. It is most useful for completing assignments, lessons or review, catching up on material missed due to absences, and providing additional copies of instructional information. Students will need to scroll down the page and find the correct assignment on which we are currently focusing. For the most part, the website information I've posted is pretty self explanatory and easy to navigate.

Click on the highlighted words above to navigate to my "classroom".