It allows her to display student work online so parents can see, keep parents informed about the class calendar (and recruit them for class trips), communicate privately with individual families through messaging, give advice about how families can support learning at home, and connect with other classes across her state (and throughout the world). Because her ‘class’ has its own Facebook identity, the students can communicate through that, rather than having their own accounts (at six years old, they are perhaps a bit young for that).