Classrooms: Features & Benefits
Homestead allows you, as an educator, to easily extend your classroom to the Internet within the constraints of your busy school year.
1. Provide students with outside resources for your curriculum.
2. Direct parents and teachers to students' work or performances.
3. Introduce family and community members to your classroom.
With Homestead you get everything you need to build a great education site! Here are just a few of the things you can do with your class Web site:
Provide Students with an Outside Resource
Create an online library for students to get tips on homework, answer keys to
homework and tests, and extra credit assignments.
Save money, time and the environment by putting assignments and handouts online.
Link to other sites to help support and enhance your instruction.
Provide a way for special needs students to feel included in the lesson.
Reward outstanding students by posting their work for the whole world to see!
Have online "office hours" from home via our chat boards.
Make yourself more accessible even if you aren't available 24x7.
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Enhance classroom instruction and increase parent and community participation!
Increase Parent Communication & Participation
Create a parent resource with lesson plans, school policies, cafeteria menus, and bus
and holiday schedules.
Password-protect and post student test scores and performance updates.
Show parents what's going on in the classroom by posting pictures, class assignments, and even notes from the students.
Send newsletters and updates to parents.
Provide parents with links to non-curriculum related topics such as parent organizations
and general parenting information.
Get parents involved in volunteering, school programs, learning activities at home, and
making decisions regarding the school.
Increase Family & Community Participation
Create a resource for extended family and the community to get information on the
school's upcoming recitals, fairs, shows, and sporting events.
Post sound files of music performances and videos of graduation, prom, and sports
events.
Send newsletters and updates to the greater community.
Create a forum for the community to talk about school issues with message boards,
chat rooms, and web polls.
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