District-Provided Classroom Webpage/Website

Many school districts are now providing template-driven classroom webpage development services to their teachers. If you have access to a service like this at your school, you are more than welcome to use it to complete the requirements of this module of the course.

Most of these district-provided sites offer Help files with specific details on how to build your classroom webpage/website. Perhaps one of your teaching colleagues who already has a district-hosted webpage/website can show you how easy it is to use the service. You could also contact your school or district tech support person for assistance.

You can also use an existing district-provided classroom webpage/website if we can verify that you have edited or added new content during the time in which you were enrolled in this course. Send me the URL (web address) of your existing website and we can discuss the options.

If you decide to use this option, create your web page or website and customize to meet your specific needs.

Be sure to include active hyperlinks to several of the age-appropriate and educationally relevant web resources that you have found while working on the second module of the course.

Those clickable hyperlinks are, in my opinion, one of the primary reasons for having a classroom website. It is so much safer to have students start their online explorations with a clickable link to websites that have been previewed and selected by the teacher than to just turn them loose with a search engine or a complicated web address that has to be entered into the browser location bar.

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