Hi Rick,

I know that Pay Pal has a "donate" button but i am not sure if you are allowed to place that on Facebook. You can always try starting a blog and I believe that you can place the "donate" button on there. Most blogs are free like Facebook.

I started working on a webpage a couple a years ago for the high school physical education department at my district. The page was being created in order to give students and parents access to health material that was presented in class. I never got it fully started because I began working on it and than my district announced that they were in the process of creating separate webpages for each department at my school.
If I go back and finish my departments website or if the district gets the website up and running it will be very beneficial to students and parents. Students would be able to go to the website to catch up on class material that they may have missed or work on future assignments. Parents can use the website to find out the requirements and what their child should be doing for the class, along with information on how to contact their child’s teacher with any questions. Since we are living in a digital age parents want to be able to see what their child is currently doing in class.

Our school is fortunate to have a quality tech department, available to provide training on occasion. During one of our teacher in-services, we learned how to create Webpages for our content areas. The application we use is called iWeb. The purpose of this ongoing project is to allow parents to see what their children are learning and doing in PE classes. Included on each Website is a short biography of the teacher. My Webpage contains a list of the units I teach with hyperlinks to respective study guides. On my fitness page I added links explaining each of the physical fitness tests we use. Since starting this class, I have begun to use (and plan to add) educational links, such as podcasts/vodcasts, blogs, discussion boards and a list of community resources. I plan to reach out and interact with the community in a meaningful way. This area of the Danielson Model of Teaching is part of our professional evaluations. In component 4c it states, “Teacher’s efforts to engage families in the instructional program are frequent and successful. Students contribute ideas for projects that will be enhanced by family participation.” This is what I hope to accomplish.

Yes I have created and updated a webpage. The purpose of my webpage was to put "content and information" at my students fingertips. I've used it for my elective class, as well as my basic physical education classes. I uploaded syllabus's we use for our physical education classes and health classes, doctor excuses (in the case where students/ parents/ guardians need to print it out), writing prompts, and more. I continue to add to this webpage as I come up with new ideas. This past year I added a unit on my webpage for an STI/ STD unit we cover in health.

Leanne
I like that you put a Doctor Excuse note on the web page. It is frustrating when students come to class with a generic letter stating "Johnny is excused from PE until further notice" I think a detailed note that everyone myst follow is a great idea!! I plan on developing one for my page now

Thank you

Dominic

I created a web page for my wrestling team. I was able to put valuable information on it for my wrestlers, parents, fans and potential campers. I had information ranging from season schedules, to history, to summer camp, to current rosters. I was able to set up alumni events and ask for donations to the program. I downloaded pictures from events and past wrestlers.
I could develop this same type of page again for my wrestling team as well as my classroom. I have used a "classroom page" from our district website. I put my syllabus, handout outs study guides and any pertinent info as needed. We recently adopted "Blizzard Bags", which are online assignments the students must do during a calamity day. My work e-mail is on this page so parents and students can contact me when needed.

I have created two Webpages before and they were both for work. The first Webpage I created was for when I taught P.E. at a high school and the second one I created is for my current P.E. teaching position at an elementary/middle school. Both Webpages were posted on our school’s website so students and parents could learn more about my P.E. program. At both schools every teacher has their own Website and we are allowed to put anything we choose on them.

On my current Website I have a biography of myself, how to contact me, my grading rubrics, the national standards, the units that will be taught for each grade level, handouts for each unit, photos of students being active in class, and additional links that I think students would enjoy exploring. I am still working on adding more and I am always updating to keep with the current year. I found creating the Website was very useful. It allows me to be creative, but also inform others of what is going on in my class. The Website helps me communicate with parents at home as well.

Unfortunately, I have not made a webpage. My colleagues and I have talked about making one. So hopefully we can try to make one this year. I think a webpage would help our program showcase our goals and what the students are learning. It keeps the parents informed about students performance, homework among other things. It makes learning personal to the students and parents.

Mandy,

I think this would be a great idea too. I feel a little intimidated by it but if I learned how to do it then I think it would be great and the students and parents would enjoy it as well.

Karen Pineda

There was one time many years ago that I tried to create a Webpage in order to kind of start my own business and to sell products, however, I never really finished it or got really into it. I know that there is a lot of potential uses for a webpage. It could be used as information for the students, containing information for homework and things that were going on in class. Students could also find pertinent information and links to other fitness related information. I believe that parents could also utilize it to get needed information from as well.
Karen Pineda

Have you ever created a Webpage? If so, what was its purpose? What are some ways that a Website you create and maintain might be useful in your work?


I have created a webpage for my department and also for my health and physical education classes.
Creating it was the hard part but now that it is there, I maintain, update and add things weekly.
The page has many uses. It is a resource for students and parents. There are assignments, handouts, videos, workouts, resources used in class, recipes, policies, among other things on my site.
It is most useful for students needing missed assignments or alternative work to be completed for physical education credit.
Every teacher should use a site to help connect with parents, students and community.

Jennifer,

I would like to create a webpage for my PE department in the near future. What you described on your page sounds awesome and is what I would like to include on mine some day. I have some questions for you. I was wondering how you went about your school to create one... Do other departments have webpages already? Did you need to see you computer technology specialist at your school/district? Did you need to find web space? Are there certain sites/programs you would suggest that are good for school based webpages? when you communicate with parents can you message them right through the page or do you leave your contact information and they message you through phone/email?

I really think designing a webpage makes a teacher more accountable and respected for all the work they are now seen doing. Especially in PE and other elective classes, many are not aware of all the learning that goes on in our field of teaching. Thank you for sharing your experience.

-Jessica

Yes I have, I crated a webpage for our baseball and volleyball teams.I use this page in order to put player profiles up and information on the upcoming season and stats from the previous season.

http://woostervolleyball-com.webs.com/

http://www.woosterbaseball.webs.com/


As a PE department we have thought about making a webpage so that students can link to the school accountant to pay for their uniforms, and also provide everyday information that they need in order to be successful in PE

I have never created an official webpage for work but I definitely would like to in the near future. In college I took a computer course and we learned how to create webpages. When I coached in my previous district, all teachers and coaches had a small page with our names and title, however, the page was vague and not very personal. If I had my own webpage and/or department webpage for my school I would include: my contact information, biography of myself, the units that are taught to my students, as well as engaging photos and videos of students (proper approval for student photos and video by administration required). I feel like creating the webpage would be very useful. Parents would be able to communicate through the webpage with me as well. I would also add reminders for students and parents such as when grades have been updated, assessments administered, change in schedule, etc.

I also feel a web page could be useful for the same reasons. Since I have never created a page I was wondering how often should a page be updated and does it take a long time?

In addition to teaching I am a vacation director for adults with special needs/developmental disabilities called Fun Time Vacation Tours. I have created the website www.clftvacations.com for travelers and their caregivers to find information about our company and to sign up to come on summer vacations.

In education I am given an "eboard" by the district. The eboard is much more simple than a traditional website and is limited by what type of content is posted. The eboard allows me to post basic information about my class/program and allows someone to send me an email. I have used it to lead a user to external links, particularly google docs. It also allows me to attach a file for download. Overall, it has been a mediocre way to communicate with families and share relevant information about my class. Google Classroom and Twitter have become a much more convenient way to communicate and share information.

I appreciated your post and will refer to Google Classroom soon to discover how this may be beneficial to my district and specifically to my classes. Can you give me a quick list of benefits that Google Classroom has versus your current class page?
Also, we have just begun to use twitter for the classroom where I have started to post activity pictures and announcements. What is your main use of twitter and have you had any problems using it or experience a student abuse of the page?
Thanks, George

I have attempted to make a webpage on 2 occasions. It always seemed that we as a district kept changing the sites to use to create a homepage of our own. This year however, we have finally gone to a district wide web based internet page (Edline) with links to our own homepage so all students, parents, and administration can see what we are doing in class. We have the basic intro and expectations of our classes and a small bit on ourselves. Content and homework are listed as well as photos and videos of our experiences in class. Edline can also be used to provide immediate feedback to the teacher with surveys and quizzes that the site actually evaluates.
As I become more familiar with the options within Edline, I can basically provide any and all information that anybody with a special interest in my class can access and explore. Things are going in the right direction, just have to learn to keep it all straight as the growth of technology and its capabilities are overwhelming at times.

Although I have never made a web site I can see some uses for it. In coaching it could be a way to share schedules, changes, pictures, directions to sites, and other information. Players, parents, other interested parties would have up to date access.

I'm in the process of creating a teacher website to communicate with parents, other PE educators and my students. My website will have information about my classes, schedule, pictures, curriculum information and information pertaining to state and national PE organizations. The website will be a resource for other PE teachers. Parents and students will find the website helpful to know what we are studying in class and find out schedule changes and announcements.