Students must be 13 years of age to gain access to Homestead's free services so they would have to use your name and e-mail address to be able to enter the program . Students with Internet at home and their parents' permission can download these and know even from home what we're up to. This calendar notes all important school events for the year as well as my home students' birthdays. From here I e-mail reminders to all students who have given me their addresses. It even has a To Do list for all major assignments in the year.
Hunt is an online calendar that allows the web user to input important dates directly unto the page.
I then incorporate these. D aily is a site that we use for daily routines such as song of the day, etc. I also maintain two teaching web sites above on the Internet. In past years my homeroom students have maintained on line pen pal friendships with students from Mr. Miles' and Mr. Brook's homerooms. We usually play floor hockey and soccer with and against Mr. Engel's students.