December+1

This semester, we used Microsoft Publisher to create flyers, brochures, postcards, calenders, and stationery. All of these items are forms of print media and can be used to as a tool of communication between teachers and students and teachers and parents. Instead of creating each of these, printing them out, passing them out to each student, and ensuring they make it home, you can use a classroom website to communicate information. The similarities between flyers, brochures, postcards, calenders, and stationery, and the classroom website, is that the same information can be put into both. For instance, important dates, events, assignments, contact information, and curriculum material can be easily inserted into both. At the beginning of the school year or at Back to School Night, you can make sure each parent or guardian knows the website address, and you can inform them to check it daily, if possible. I have been using a classroom website for the past three years, and it has been working as a great communication tool with parents. Most of the papers that are sent home with students never make it there, and all of my hard work usually goes unseen. Once information is put on the website, it stays, and can be checked as much as needed.