What are you trying to achieve with your site?
	To whom are you communicating?
	What do you want to say?

Activity: Define what specific goals and purposes you have for your site. Do you want your students and their parents to know more about you and your qualifications? Do you want to make more resources available for your students? Do you what to make it easy for students to access their various worksheets and handouts as they go through the course? Would you like to display some truly fabulous work that your students have done? All of the above? Have you taken some notes on what you want your site to say as you browsed through the example sites?   Your site will be easier to create and easier for the viewer to understand if you figure out the goals and purposes that you have for it before you go any further. With that purpose in mind, sit down and write out the answers to the following:   What do you have in mind as the most important function of your site? What other functions do you want it to fulfill? What would the ideal site be if you could have it done exactly as you want it? What immediate goals do you have for the site? Use the Planning Worksheet to jot down answers to those questions. Refer to them as you develop your site. Stay focused on your purpose as you create your class site. Your site will be a growing, living thing. You probably won’t create the ultimate, perfect site and then simply leave it alone. That’s one reason why it is important to have an end in mind, but work first for the immediate goals. The feedback that you get from students, parents, teachers, etc. will help you to modify it as you go along.

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