This site lists defines what a wiki, blog, weblog, and web page are and contrasts their differences and applications. It gives an educator an idea of what kind of tool they could and should use that would best fit their classroom purposes and needs. By figuring out the differences and deciphering what type of tool you want to use, an educator can further research the resource they would like to use to improve communication and fragment of parents and students.

This resource has ten reasons as to why teachers should have a classroom website including: easy way to meet need of students with IEP and 504, archive for class, keep on track, easy to make, tells students what they missed, information for parents, contribute outside of classroom, show off creativity, communication to you, gateway to engagement. This list is accompanied by an explanation of why these are beneficial as well as more ways to implement the elements of a classroom website to mold it for your classroom purposes.

This Scholastic website not only has a step-by-step for creating a classroom website, but it also lists the benefits of making a classroom website. It describes how incorporating a classroom websites not only benefits the environment, but it also increases communication and safe exploration for students and parents. On this website, it clearly states how to set up a classroom website as well as important elements to put into the website to help it be truly beneficial for all parties.

This website would be a great resource because it describes the tools available for teachers to use in the classroom and it also describes the tools application. This website categorizes tools into four separate categories of Sharing and Collaborating, Classroom Innovation, Planning and Organizing, and Teacher Development. Within each of these categories are websites and other resources that can be used to improve communication, class learning, and an educator's teaching.

This website has a data base for tools to help teachers set up their technological means for communication with parents and students. This website has links and descriptions of how to use technology to improve grade books, student behavior, parent-teacher communication, student response outlets, and also learning management systems. It would be a great resource for teachers striving to improve communication and classroom settings with technology.

Children's Poetry includes several featurues that make it ideally suited for teaching phonemic awareness, word recognition, and reading fluency. -children's poems are short and easy to learn -Poems Play with the Sounds of Language -Poems Make Phonics more engaging Poems can range from simple to complex.