Study the streaming video and guidelines for creating a classroom home page on the Teaching English Through Technology website.

Your classroom website should follow all the guidelines for classroom websites on the Teaching English Through Technology site.

Your page for students needs to include:

1) a link to at least one fully developed webquest you have made your self.

2) at least ten links to sites that support literature or language arts activities that you are likely to use as a teacher.  For example if you think you would like to teach To kill a Mockingbirdsomeday it would be neat to have some sites linked to materials that would support learning about the novel, links might include background on the author, commentary on the novel, sites about lynching, race relations in the South, etc. In this way you begin creating your own electronic textbook targeted to your specific class.
3) Links to communication resources such as threaded discussion and chat sites that could supplement your course.

4) A recommended reading list for your students that includes a minimum of ten entries.  Use only books you have read, include multicultural and young adult titles. (See sample Your Own Reading List.)  You can make this list graphically appealing with cover images, links to on-line book stores, etc.

Your philosophy page should refer specifically to multiple aspects of language arts teaching includingliterature and writing. Demonstrate that you know how to talk about our discipline using the current professional language. Explain your terms so that non-professionals can also understand you.

On your professional page why not start the electronic portfolio that WMU expects you to make while you are intern teaching. For WMU you will be expected to divide your porfolio into the categories of the final evaluation of intern teaching. You can find these categories on the intern teaching evaluation form available available as a pdf file on the intern teacher information page. Consider also my comments on portfolios on my job advice page.