Middle School Language Arts

The International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) has a document in PDF format entitled “101 Best Web Sites for Teacher Tools and Professional Development,” which can be accessed through www.iste.org.   This is an exceptional place to begin when deciding what resources to use in addressing the administrative/organizational aspects of teaching.  One of these suggested sites that I visited was www.gradeconnect.com .  It is a clean and navigable site for tracking attendance, grades, assessments and calendar.  It can e-mail parents/guardians alerting them to when their student is absent from class.  I like the sidebar which has: google search, word of the day, education news links from ED.gov, breaking news links from NASA,  a wordfind puzzle creator, along with local weather and a weather channel link.  Wow!  All that without looking cluttered.  I was impressed.