Do your parents and students have Internet at home? Have you explored this new way to communicate with parents and students? Creating your own Web page can be a useful and easy way to communicate with others.

It's getting easier to create your own home page on the World Wide Web. There are several ways to use your own curriculum Web page in your classroom. First, you can create a Web site that informs others. You can create a site with a daily schedule, homework, classroom requirements, grading policy, notes, study guides, makeup work, links to other sites and much, much more. Second, you can create a Web site that students use to complete a lesson. You can provide links to other sites, some of which may have online activities for the students to do. The fun here is in the interactive nature of the lesson which appeals to students. Third, is to have your students develop their own Web sites instead of writing term papers. The students can research the topic and then design a Web page covering the material. This new type of product may be shared not only with you, but now with future students, as well.

This training program has been designed so that teachers can learn how to design basic Web sites in two days of online training. This site will walk individuals through FileMaker Home Page. FileMaker Home Page is a cross platform software that makes Web design fairly easy. READ THIS ARTICLE It provides insight on why schools and teachers should be designing Web sites.

Since Web design is really an individual decision, the two day training will provide choices on what you may want to include on your site. Decide what you want on your Web site. (Web site is a series of Web pages linked together.) Don't expect to have a major Web site completed in just two days. It takes time to develop a completed site. However, the next two training days should provide ample time to get a good start.

Before starting, there are a few things to think about. It is not necessary to get too fancy. Start with a simple idea and work from there. Keep your audience in mind, and make it useful for your students and parents.