It's not as hard you might think.

"A web site can enhance your effectiveness as a teacher and even save you time."

Does it ever feel like every teacher has a classroom web site except for you? Believe it or not, you can build an effective and high quality web site without the hassle of learning complicated code and without using special software. Best of all, you can build this web site quickly, easily and for free!

There are many misconceptions that teachers hold about building web pages, such as:

• It costs extra money for software, storage space, etc.
• It's very difficult and time-consuming, not worth the hassle.
• "I could never figure out how to make my own site!"
• "Classroom web pages are for other teachers, not for me."

In fact, none of these myths are necessarily true. There are several exceptional online tools geared towards educators that take the mess out of this high-tech project.

But, first of all, why should you want a classroom web site? A web site can enhance your effectiveness as a teacher and even save you time in a variety of ways. For example, classroom web sites can:

• simplify communication with both students and parents
• celebrate and publicize the wonderful things you are accomplishing in the classroom
• offer your audience easy, updated access to grades, assignments, schedules and class activities
• save you time because people can get information directly from the web site instead of calling you
• showcase student work and accomplishments

The possibilities are endless because you can customize the content and organization of your site to meet the objectives you have in mind.

If you're ready to get your classroom online, click ahead to Part 2 of this article for a listing of free tools that will help you a build a web site almost instantly.

Read Part 2

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