In this age of information technology it is
important that we as teachers immerse our students
into this rapidly expanding world. Running a
classroom website is a great way of approaching this
goal. I designed this website to show teachers how
easy it can be to have their own classroom website.
On this site teachers will be shown how to build
their own website, for
little or no cost, that will become a resource for both
students and parents. Use the navigation menu to the
left to help you maneuver through this site. Each
section will give you a descriptive overview about that
particular topic, along with links to other
resources regarding those topics. The links are to a
lot of the free resources that I use
to develop and enhance my site. I have rated these
sites using a (*1star) to (*****5 star) system, with
five stars being the best.
Unless you want to learn how to program, you will
need to get your hands on a good HTML editor. An
HTML editor is a tool that allows you to input your
content and it generates the HTML code. You
can use a sophisticated word processing program like
Microsoft Word, which comes with a built in HTML
editor or you can use or download a free one from the web.
I have built a basic web
page creator that will allow you to create
simple web pages for free.
For a more professional website, consider
purchasing
Microsoft FrontPage
,
Adobe GoLive or Macromedia
Dreamweaver.
These feature rich products are somewhat expensive,
but they can
help you create very attractive and easy-to-maintain
websites.