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As always the responses from this group gave me many possibilities and a lot to think about. Thank you so much. I am sorry that it has been a couple of weeks, but I got back from my internship just in time for my two book fairs to arrive and to complete my two budgets. I have posted my website just today. It is nowhere near finished, but I will be sharing it with my classmates soon and so needed to upload it. The temporary URL is: http://fc.hermon.net/~kaline_goodrich/HMSLibrary/ although I am sure that will change once I have it approved by my district. It is definitely an amateurish effort right now and I would welcome any suggestions. I have only just started filling it the teacher and parent pages, so don't expect a lot from them. I am aware that two of the graphics on the home page are not working. The responses everyone sent are below, minus names. Thanks again to everyone who helped. Kaline Goodrich, almost an offical LMS Hermon Elem & Middle Hermon, ME kaline369@yahoo.com ..................... I've just published my LMS website, really just testing, and realize I need to change a few graphics, etc and add home page picture--HOWEVER, you might want to check it out, I have a parent page, may be what you are looking for, maybe not. Let me know your thoughts, I have not announced it in the school community as yet, need to clean a few things up and finish adding ar quizzes (5700--quite a chore). My sister has previewed it, and not discounting her, but she is a loving supportive sister and so proud her little sissy even created a web site, not sure she can be critical other than the obvious loopy pictures. Anyway would like your input-- - you may visit at www.aublib.logan.k12.ky.us ............................ How about links to the NCLB site, they have free materials for parents. ....................... You might want to include links to sites that include recommended reading by grade level. I am often asked by parents what books their child should be reading. I also included a link to book adventure.com - that's a free web site that allows kids to take tests over thousands of books. Sort of like Accelerated Reader or Reading Counts. <A HREF="http://www.bookadventure.com/"> <http://www.bookadventure.com/</a> ........................................ Here's what I did - but it hasn't been updated or checked in almost 3 years. http://www.splendora.k12.tx.us/sms/lib/parenweb.htm ...................................................... These are a couple I found a while back that might be useful. Certainly not exhaustive. http://www.angelfire.com/pa2/Boisvert/ safesights.html safe sites for parents and students http://www.angelfire.com/pa2/Boisvert/ Search.html educational search engines http://www.pueblo.gsa.gov/ Federal Citizen Information Center, Pueblo, Colo http://www.state.tx.us/ State of Texas online (Can't tell what state you are in). Also, what about websites for "challenges" kids have that can give the parent more information, like http://www.interdys.org/ International dyslexia society. Special ed sites http://specialed.freeyellow.com/ the special education homepage Just some ideas. .................. A quick Google search netted these sources. http://www.parentsoup.com/ http://www.ipl.org/kidspace/browse/tcn0000 http://www.northstar.k12.ak.us/parent/index.html http://www.ala.org/Content/NavigationMenu/ALSC/Great_Web_Sites_for_Kids/Great_Web_Sites__Sites_for_Parents,_Caregivers,_Teachers_and_Others.htm http://www.screenit.com/ http://www.parentsonline.gov.uk/parents/index.html ................................................... The first place to start is to identify what your target parent audience would need. It could be quite different from what my parent body would want. Having established that, it is easier to search for and select sites that will be relevant. .................... Don't know how general or specific you want ¯ but http://www.ldonline.org might be useful to parents with concerns in that arena. ............................ Here is the address of an outstanding middle school library site..................... http://www.infotaft.marioncity.k12.oh.us/index.html and here is Deb's parent page address............ http://www.infotaft.marioncity.k12.oh.us/parent.html ...................................................... Checkout our school district's website. I know they have a section devoted to info for parents. The address is: http://www.jackson.k12.mo.us ...................................... Here are some sites from our guidance page: http://www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/parenting_teenagers/ http://parentingteens.about.com/mbody.htm http://www.positiveparenting.com/ http://www.parentsoup.com/ http://webtools.familyeducation.com/article/0,1120,4-7140,00.html http://www.step-family-matters.com/ http://xpedio02.childrenshc.org/stellent/groups/public/@xcp/@web/@mentalhealth/documents/policyreferenceprocedure/web010841.asp Homework help sites: http://www.sparknotes.com/ http://school.discovery.com/students/ http://highschoolhub.org/hub/hub.cfm http://middleschoolhub.org/school/school.cfm http://www.gomath.com/ http://homeworkspot.com/ I might also add a section explaining about overdue notices, fines etc. Perhaps if you have any annual events that involve parents you can add them here. .................................................... You may want to checkout my HotList of K-12 Internet Schools at: http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Schools/default.asp .................................................. I am not a parent either, or understand the complexity of this suggestion, but here goes I was talking to a parent last week and she said that on her daughter's web site she can go look at the girl's grades, [she noticed that the daughter had a 94 on homework (and was kind of copying it from friends) and a 78 on the test (not doing homework comes back to bite you on the heel)] I think probably The best might be a Teacher's Page for all the teachers that parents go to. a spot for grades (but that involves a password) Teacher's name and e-mail for classes a home work page, listing what is due this week or tomorrow coming events for that class (test on Thursday, field trip on Friday) just some thoughts ..................... Look at www.irvingisd.net ............................. You're welcome to look on the parent resources page I've put together if it will be of any help. http://www.duncanville.k12.tx.us/kgarrett/default.htm ...................................................... A lot of public libraries have links for parents. You could try going to Google and typing in something like: library links for parents and see what you get. I came up with dozens of hits that looked promising. .............................................. ===== Willow: Gee, maybe we should help Giles. He might be in danger. Xander: Nah, he's like Super Librarian. People forget, Willow, that knowledge is the ultimate weapon. Buffy the Vampire Slayer __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now http://companion.yahoo.com/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=- All LM_NET postings are protected by copyright law. 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