Teacher

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Teachers Using the Internet

• By Peggy Jo Stanley
• www.pjteaches.com
• Pjteaches_at_juno.com

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Creating a Cyber Classroom
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Surf the web looking at other teachers 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?

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Possible Class Page Content

• Announcements/Events
• Course Description
• Communication
• Class Rules
• Homework/Assignments
• Links to Standards
• Contact Information
• Links - specific, general, favorite, fun

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Possible Class Page Content

• Teacher Information
• Calendar/Schedule
• Materials
• FAQs
• Student Work
• Practice Opportunities
• Parent info

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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?
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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.
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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.
Locating a Web Host
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Free Web Hosting Services

• Yahoo Geocities
• Angelfire
• Your ISP example AOL Hometown
• Freeservers.com
• Freewebspace.net - directory to free web hosting
• 100 Best - directory to free web hosting

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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

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Student Web Pages

• You may want to get your students involved with
  web page development. The following website will
  host student projects.
• MatMice - Scholastic

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Web Development Resources for Teachers - ways to
expand your classroom.

• 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

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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

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Web Development Resources for Teachers - ways to
expand your classroom.

• Online scavenger hunts http//www.spa3.k12.sc.us/
  Scavenger.htmlhttp//k6educators.about.com/librar
  y/howto/htscav.htmhttp//www.education-world.com/
  a_curr/curr113.shtml
• Online practice quizzeshttp//school.discovery.co
  m/teachingtools/teachingtools.html

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Free Educational Resources

• PowerPoint presentation backgrounds and templates
  (Example http//www.brainybetty.com/educators2.h
  tm
• Teacher Resources http//www.theteacherscorner.n
  et/
• http//www.edhelper.com/
• http//sitesforteachers.com/index.html
• http//www.ed.gov/free/index.html

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Free Educational Resources

• Teacher Resources
• http//home.amaonline.com/teacherstuff/holiday.htm
  
• http//freebies.about.com/cs/teacherfreebies/a/res
  ources.htm
• http//www.atozteacherstuff.com/
• http//www.schoolexpress.com/
• http//www.teach-nology.com/teachers/
• http//www.teachers-pet.org/

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Free Educational Resources

• Teacher Resources
• http//www.teacherfiles.comhttp//www.a0kteach
  erstuff.com/
• http//www.suelebeau.com/freetools.htm
• http//school.discovery.com/

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Free Educational Resources

• Clip Arthttp//www.aperfectworld.org/clip_art.htm
  http//www.teacherfiles.com/clip_art.htm
• Lesson Ideas / Lesson Planshttp//www.teacherfile
  s.com/sharing_lesson_ideas.htmhttp//www.lessonpl
  ansearch.com/http//www.lessonplanspage.com/

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Professional Resources

• Georgia Professional Standard Commission can
  check certification status plus more
• Henry County SDU classes
• UGA Teacher Technology Classes

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Professional Resources

• Web Ringshttp//teachers.net/webring/http//w.we
  bring.com/hub?ringteachersnethttp//dir.webring.
  com/rw?dSchools___Educationhttp//www.ringsurf.c
  om/netring?ringteachersactionlist
• Beginning Teachers WebRing

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Teacher Web Site Examples

• http//www.bitsygriffin.org/
• http//www.e2t2c2.net/mccullough/pierce/
• http//www.ri.net/schools/Central_Falls/ch/heazak/
  welcome.html
• http//www.scienceteachingideas.com/Krech.htm