This article gives great insight into the benefits and reasons to implement social media sites such as twitter, instagram, and Facebook into the classroom. It discusses the use of hashtags on these sites and how they can be supportive and aid in class-wide study groups.

This website gives examples of the various things that parents want out of a classroom website. It also provides more examples of classroom websites for a guideline of how successful ones operate. This is beneficial to this lesson because it is important to remember that parents are active components of the classroom and they deserve to be kept in the loop and involved in the day-to-day activities of the class. This website provides ideas and evidence to promote a classroom community involving all parties.

Reading Rockets is a reliable, applicable resource for teachers to use in their classroom and lesson planning. We have found that this website also contains valuable information pertaining to the many benefits of parents being involved and a part of the classroom community. It shows the positive effect a relationship and communication with a teacher has on the parents, the student, and the teacher. This website will add a lot of important information to our lesson and the people we are trying to reach.

This website is a free video generator that will allow teachers to add pictures from their class to the website and create an engaging slide show of her students. We feel that parents will love this feature of her website and will give them insight of what happens in their child's classroom.

This website is a great resource to use if a teacher wants to add a fun quiz about herself to her website as a link. It is free, easy to use, and easy to access. We think students would enjoy doing this when they go to her website and it would add a unique way for her kids to get to know her.