Teacher’s Using the Internet
By Peggy Jo Stanley
www.pjteaches.com
Pjteaches@juno.com
Creating a Cyber Classroom
Surf the web looking at other teacher’s
websites, asking yourself some questions:
• What draws you into the website?
• What distracts you from enjoying the
website?
• What would you change to make it
more effective?
Possible Class Page Content
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Announcements/Events
Course Description
Communication
Class Rules
Homework/Assignments
Links to Standards
Contact Information
Links - specific, general, favorite, fun
Possible Class Page Content
• Teacher Information
• Calendar/Schedule
• Materials
• FAQs
• Student Work
• Practice Opportunities
• Parent info
As you consider the content, ask
yourself about the purpose of the
page. Is it for promotion,
outreach, homework, information,
student sharing, or parent
involvement? Who is the
audience? How will resources be
used? Why will they want to
return?
Make your page attractive,
interesting, and informative.
Include contact information,
background information.Think
about accomplishments,
announcements, news, and other
things that will draw people back to
the site. If you include policies and
procedures, make them interesting.
Locating a Web Host
There are many websites that provide
free web hosting for personal and
school web pages. Many of the
educational website hosts provide
easy-to-use templates. Whenever you
use a web hosting service, be sure to
save a backup of your web page. Some
of these free services may either
disappear or become subscription
services.
Free Web Hosting Services
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Yahoo Geocities
Angelfire
Your ISP example: AOL Hometown
Freeservers.com
Freewebspace.net - directory to free web
hosting
• 100 Best - directory to free web hosting
Free Teacher Website Hosting
• Web Wizard - build a single page
• Scholastic Home Page Builder class pages
• Schoolnotes - good for simple,
single pages
• Teach-nology - web page
Student Web Pages
You may want to get your students
involved with web page
development. The following
website will host student projects.
MatMice - Scholastic
Web Development Resources for
Teachers - ways to expand your classroom.
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4teachers.org - lots of tools and templates
Teach-noloy Building a Website Links
Eduhound Hotllist - make a hotllist
Filamentality - find and build webquests
Homemaker - helps you make a page, but not store it
Homemaker for Libraries - helps you make a library
page (no storage)
Teach-nology Calendar - create a class calendar
Yahoo Egroups - create a discussion group
Nicenet - create a discussion group - for educators
Worksheet generator - create worksheets plus more
Web Development Resources for
Teachers - ways to expand your classroom.
•FunBrain.com – online educational games
•WebQuests - An inquiry-oriented activity in
which some or all of the information that
students interact with comes from resources on
the Internet
templates
the webquest page
examples
Web Development Resources for
Teachers - ways to expand your classroom.
•Online scavenger hunts
http://www.spa3.k12.sc.us/Scavenger.html
http://k6educators.about.com/library/howto/hts
cav.htm
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/curr113.shtml
•Online practice quizzes
http://school.discovery.com/teachingtools/teach
ingtools.html
Free Educational Resources
• PowerPoint presentation backgrounds
and templates (Example:
http://www.brainybetty.com/educators2
.htm
• Teacher Resources:
http://www.theteacherscorner.net/
http://www.edhelper.com/
http://sitesforteachers.com/index.html
http://www.ed.gov/free/index.html
Free Educational Resources
• Teacher Resources:
http://home.amaonline.com/teacherstuff/
holiday.htm
http://freebies.about.com/cs/teacherfree
bies/a/resources.htm
http://www.atozteacherstuff.com/
http://www.schoolexpress.com/
http://www.teach-nology.com/teachers/
http://www.teachers-pet.org/
Free Educational Resources
• Teacher Resources:
http://www.teacherfiles.com
http://www.a0kteacherstuff.com/
http://www.suelebeau.com/freetools.htm
http://school.discovery.com/
Free Educational Resources
• Clip Art
http://www.aperfectworld.org/clip_art.h
tm
http://www.teacherfiles.com/clip_art.ht
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• Lesson Ideas / Lesson Plans
http://www.teacherfiles.com/sharing_le
sson_ideas.htm
http://www.lessonplansearch.com/
http://www.lessonplanspage.com/
Professional Resources
•Georgia Professional Standard
Commission – can check
certification status plus more
•Henry County SDU classes
•UGA Teacher Technology Classes
Professional Resources
•Web Rings
http://teachers.net/webring/
http://w.webring.com/hub?ring=teachersnet
http://dir.webring.com/rw?d=Schools___E
ducation
http://www.ringsurf.com/netring?ring=teach
ers;action=list
Beginning Teacher’s WebRing
Teacher Web Site Examples
•http://www.bitsygriffin.org/
•http://www.e2t2c2.net/mccullough/pierce/
•http://www.ri.net/schools/Central_Falls/ch/heaz
ak/welcome.html
•http://www.scienceteachingideas.com/Krech.ht
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