Sunday, November 25, 2007

My question

My question is: What can I add to my class website to entice parents who do not usually use it, to start signing in more often?

My field study will focus on furthering communication with the parents in my class. I have already made a website giving the parents an idea of what French sounds like by using audio. Even though I found it was an effective communication tool with the parents, I found that it had many problems.
1. The children who needed to use it, did not have parents at home that would take the time to sit with their child or sign their child in.
2. Some children did not have computers/internet at home.
3. Some lost interest and stopped using it by the middle of the year.I did find that I had more parents coming into my class, feeling comfortable enough to ask me questions or just talk about subjects that were not school related. Since I have done this project on websites, I would like to find other ways that I can use technology to communicate with the parents or simply to intice them to use the website more.
Some ideas I have are:
-adding photos to make parents want to sign in.
-Nanos to record their voice and play on the website.
-comic life to further writing skills.

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