Having students set up class and project web sites allows teachers, parents and students to work together to improve student academic performance and extends classroom learning into the home and the community. This session focuses on how to train 3rd, 4th and 5th graders to become Web masters. Children want to share their day to day triumphs with peers, parents and extended family. Parents want to know what happens daily in their child's classroom, what were today s academic accomplishments.
Teachers seek parent and family involvement and support.
Training children to become web publishers has allowed our students, parents and teachers to become a learning team. Presenters share kid friendly training techniques, free and inexpensive resources, project management structures, tech community mentor program, summer web wizard camp for teachers and students, after school computer club, parent and child night wizard training, peer teaching program and student produce web pages and sites, including ThinkQuest Junior entries. Web publishing put an audience at the fingertips of every child in our school.