Students have no excuse for forgetting assignments. Last year, his site got about 4,000 hits in about 19 weeks of school. The site had links to a number of good online resources. Some teens, however, will never use the Internet for school, he said, focusing instead on entertainment. Eric Hall, a science teacher at Hoover High School in Des Moines, has had a page since last year.
Some teachers put up assignments that can only be accessed through the Web.
Hall said he only gives extra credit assignments on the page and links to information he has gone over in class. But maybe it's a more enticing way to get them to learn. He has been disappointed at the relatively few students who went to the page last year. Hall said fewer than half his students have a computer and Internet access at home. The Internet offers an overwhelming amount of valuable information, but it is no replacement for traditional research, teachers said.