How will this affect my teaching?

“How do you think you will use your website in your own teaching? What aspects of the website will be most useful for you, your students, and their parents?”

    For my future classroom I think that I will indeed use my website as a place where my students and their parents can find assignments, know of up coming projects and tests, read what I expect from the students, and have other modes of learning outside of my classroom.  Now that I have learned more about technology and how easy it is to use I will be less afraid to implement it into my own teaching methods.  I think for many students a class website will be extremely useful for when they are at home and need to remember what is due, or what they need to be studying.  My only fear is that some of my students may not have access to my website from home, or out of neglect may forget to use it.  Hopefully I can remind them of the importance and helpfulness of the class website.

    The aspect of the website that will be most useful for me would either be the class blog, to get a feel for how the students are doing, and helping them answer questions that they may need help with, or all of the documents that students have access to so that I can simply direct them to the class website instead of printing our more copies of the syllabus (for example).  I think these same aspects will be helpful for the students.  I think the blog can help them start a network of help for homework and upcoming tests.  I think the helpful links to practice quizzes and tutorials under Anatomy will be extremely helpful to those students as well.  For the parents I feel as if the calendar and copies of the syllabus will be most helpful for them so they can see what is expected of their student and when.  It can help them keep their child on task.