Alright, perhaps I'm a bit crazy when it comes to my interest in technology!
I currently have a classroom wikispace -this is several pages of links to great classroom resources and archives of old classroom work. It's organized and it functions, but it's not very pretty! I also expect that its existence will slowly fade away as I move on to bigger & better places.
Secondly, I have student blogs -these are for students to easily publish their work for others to see, last year it also became a quick place for me to get information, photos, and reminders out to our classroom families.
This spring I took another big leap and entered the blogging world for myself. It started by weeding through the many resources on our wikispace and creating new posts with more eye-catching links. I also love the organization that comes naturally with the tagging feature!
Additionally, you are here, which means I also have quickly started this 2nd blog, for teachers, as I realized I had way too much to share with all of you and I couldn't resist the urge to get started.
Despite having so much going on with all of these new sites (and my recently up-and-running TpT store), I'm already thinking about my next move...
It's Shutterfly!? I'm afraid I don't have all of the answers on this yet, but it definitely appears that this could be the "Classroom-to-Parent communication hub" that I have been looking for! Of course, I did not think of this myself, as usual I have been inspired by another blogger! So, Read this post from a teacher who is already trying it and decide for yourself if it could work for you! It has officially made it on my summer list of things to do.