Two on Tuesdays : More Website Ideas

I'm sneaking this in just before I have to rename my Two on Tuesdays to, I don't know, Website Wednesdays???  Here are a few more ideas, building on my videos from last week, of ways to maximize the effectiveness of your webpages while minimizing the time you spend keeping it updated.

1. Here is a short video showing how to share documents with students and parents in four different ways (handing them to students in class is not one of them): email, Remind, your website, and your announcements blog.

https://youtu.be/K3lirP4DtPw

Sharing Documents w/ the World - YouTube Watch now...

2. Are you sending out weekly emails that automatically publish to your website AND using the Remind App to send texts to keep your students and their families informed?  If you are, here is a way to combine them both together to really get your information out there. If you are not, be sure to check out my videos from last week to learn how to use these great communication tools. 

https://youtu.be/vs6qDx_shZ8

Combining Weekly Emails with Remind - YouTube Watch now...

Contact your ITRT if you need help with any of this!

Let the World See your Documents!

It is not a great idea to assume that your students and/or their families have Microsoft Office on the computer they use to access your website. If you are uploading Word or Publisher documents or Excel files, and your end user does not have Office installed, they may have trouble accessing your documents.

Making all your documents PDF files before you upload/save them to your Google drive helps insure they still look the way you want them to and that they can be read on most computers (a PDF reader is a free download if it isn't standard on a computer).

To make a PDF of the document you want to publish, you can:

1. Choose “save as” and change the file type to PDF when your document is finalized
2. Choose “print” and choose “CutePDF writer” as the printer and follow the prompts to save your document

Enjoy your webmastering!