In my district (and I encourage you to find the policy for your district before you make a webpage), all teachers' pages must be 1 of 2 thingies (I don't know what they are called) supported by the districe. The two "thingies" are dreamweaver and schoolweb. Anyone can go through the district webpage to get to a teacher site, but to access the forums, they must "be added" to the class using the @lisd.net e-mail ending. What I'm getting at is that even though geocities is better (and probably easier), my disctict would not apporve it for my classes to use.
Ashli On 7/5/07, Amy Lesemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello - I use geocities.com; you need a Yahoo id, but everything's free > and pretty easy to use. Once in geocities.com, you choose > PageBuilder. I'd suggest using their templates to start off. I have a lot > of separate pages, such Humanities, Spelling, Reading activities (includes > links to favorite author webs). This also allows me to make links to > worksheets/assignments so if they lose their homework they can go to my > webpage and print one out. I teach math, too, so I have links to many > interactive math sites, which provide reinforcement and fun, too. > > Here's the site: www.geocities.com/a_lesemann - that takes you to my home > page. > http://www.geocities.com/a_lesemann/stthomasilc.html - that takes you > right to my teaching page. > > I have yet to work out blogging for the kids, but this sounds like a great > idea. With middle schoolers, you'll need to watch what they're doing and > where they go online. Remind them that you can click on History to see what > pages they've visited, if they're feeling sneaky. Let's face it, there will > always be the kid or two who wanders off in Google Land...even with filters > sometimes they'll just go off task, often to see if they can get away with > it. > > Hope this helps - email me off the list with any questions. > > > > Reading Specialist and Independent Learning Center Teacher, St. Thomas > School > Ann Arbor, Michigan > www.geocities.com/a_lesemann > www.geocities.com/backtalkclague > > > > > > --------------------------------- > Finding fabulous fares is fun. > Let Yahoo! FareChase search your favorite travel sites to find flight and > hotel bargains. > _______________________________________________ > The Literacy Workshop ListServ http://www.literacyworkshop.org > > To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to > http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/lit_literacyworkshop.org. > > Search the LIT archives at http://snipurl.com/LITArchive > _______________________________________________ The Literacy Workshop ListServ http://www.literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/lit_literacyworkshop.org. Search the LIT archives at http://snipurl.com/LITArchive
