Teacher connecting with others

My final vision project has a few layered elements to it that I did not foresee when I first set out on my final project. I originally planned to create a class website to share with my parent community, teachers on staff, and the wider world. But what didn’t appeal to me was not being able to share certain photos because student faces were in them, due to privacy concerns for my students and from the parents. This year, I have taken class photos at Halloween, on a field trip, as well as many pictures showing excited students engaged in building creations where they requested their picture to me taken. I didn’t want to be hindered in my ability to share these pictures with the parents due to media consent issues on a public site so I opted for a more private class website. I decided to use Shutterfly ClassShare. I also wanted to have a website to better connect with my ELL parents. Below is a screenshot of my website so far. (Doing this screenshot...

Image retrieved from emaze.com Well, I have decided to create a classroom website instead of a blog for my final vision project. After some reflection on which platform is better, and with the help and advice of some of my teacher friends, I opted for a site that is private and only the members you add can view it. I decided to choose Shutterfly Share Sites as my website platform. I also like how websites have pages or tabs to organize different categories or content information. https://www.shutterfly.com/classroom-share/ It is interesting the way I came to this decision. I even set up an online survey that I posted last week to my blog. I also shared this survey on Facebook, and tagged teacher friends with the link, in order to get their opinion. Many of them use Weebly or Wordpress but those are all open sites. Then I remembered a previous blog post I had written about a teacher friend from last year who had shown me Shutterfly Class Share. It is...