Teacher Websites

Lubbock, TX Independent School District parents probably never dreamed as high schoolers of how closely they would someday follow their own children's classwork.
But parents today can keep up with their children's grades, homework assignments, class projects and test dates online through teacher Web pages. They can even follow a few of the same lectures their children hear in class. Lubbock-Cooper teachers must keep Web pages and update them at least once a week. Parents receive e-mails at the first of the school year inviting them to join the Web pages of various classes. New e-mails arrive every time a teacher updates a Web page with what the students are doing in class or electronic copies of notes, handouts and reviews. Parents who register for parent accounts can attach all of their children, Henderson said. If they have three children on different campuses, they can follow all of their children on the same account.

Use of Weblogs: A computer attached to the board, which resembles a large flat-screen television screen, records lectures and what a teacher writes on the board with special colored styluses. The computer publishes the lectures to the teacher's Web page. If a student misses class or didn't understand a particular math concept, the lesson can be accessed through the Web page.