Class web pages

Class web pages are becoming more and more common for today's teachers.  Some range from only having simple welcome pages, while others have weekly newsletters and homework assignments.  Schools should want to use there website as a way to promote their school and draw new educators to the area.  Teachers could also use there own class websites as evidence to their competency and creativity when seeking employment.  I feel that having a class web page can be a very helpful and almost essential tool in education.  Having newsletter available online is a lot easier than trying to print of papers and hope they make it home to parents.  Having newsletters online can give parents easy access to information about their child's education.  If children forget their spelling words, they could easily find them online on the classes page.  

  Though there are any benefits, they are something holding us back from becoming completely paperless with information.  Obviously, people not having internet access is an issue.  Another problem is if servers were to go down and need maintenance during inconvenient times.  It also takes extra time for a teacher to keep these sites up-to-date and relevant.  It will take some real effort on the part of the teacher and classroom parents to make sites like these successful.