My goal of the website

The main purpose of this blog is to be able to fully communicate with parents and/or guardians of the students in my classroom. I spend a lot of time writing in the students' daily journals and 75% of the time I never get a response. My time is very valuable to all of the students in my classroom and I believe this will be the perfect solution of making sure that I am maximizing all of my time with the students. Here are my goals for this blog:

1. be an effective communicator about events going on in the classroom, school, and district
2. keep the parents up to date on daily activities and themes for the week
3. create a community of people who provide input to the classroom by blogging 

I love the idea of posting majority of all information (photos-after I have the signed consent, forms, calendar, important information, etc. ) on the blog with one click. This will minimize the time I spend in the classroom writing in journals. Most parents in the school that I teach at have (I-Pads,I-Phones, or a Smartphone, etc. ) and have access to their technology devices all day. I believe that with this population this will be the most effective way of communicating with the parents, and getting a response from them.

I can't wait to get parent input about the extent of communication offered through this BLOG!!!