I currently am working on a Wiki for my AP Lit class for a unit on Pride and Prejudice, but I’m curious about other resources available to build a teacher Website. I had used Moodle at my last school and I found it very useful and user-friendly, but I know there are many other formats I could use. Cyndi Danner-Kuhn's presentation gave me a variety of different options to explore.
Danner-Kuhn is a professor of education, and she advocates that every teacher have a Website. Her reasons are persuasive, efficiency being a major reason, as it helps educators gain teaching time. Absent students, on a very practical level, for example, are able to catch up more quickly with work missed. But far beyond that, students gain access to far more curriculum resources they can use outside of the classroom. Consistent connection with students and families is also a major benefit of a teacher Web site.
Danner-Kuhn provides a list of resources sites that she contends are easy, free, and user friendly.
Among them:
http://www.wix.com (a Flash website)
http://www.web.com
In introducing these resources, Danner-Kuhn points to some model teacher Web sites, several of which post student work, which I thought was an interesting feature (though student privacy is a concern of mine). On some teacher Web sites, students have the ability to create their own, separate Web pages, which may present some possibilities, such as an online portfolio. Again, student privacy is one of my concerns, but I think that this potentially is an excellent tool.
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