This document provides instructions for technology integration practices for a teacher website. It includes: 1. Updating the school website link in the sidebar of the teacher website by searching for and adding the URL of the teacher's current or dream school. 2. Creating a first day of semester newsletter on the teacher website for students and parents with information like welcome, teacher contact details, classroom expectations, and more. 3. Adding an interactive Google Map of the school to the newsletter page by embedding the map code from Google Maps search of the school address.

1. Technology Integration Practice #3
Newsletter

2. 1. UPDATING THE SCHOOL WEBSITE LINK
• Is there a dream school you want to be hired in the future?|
o If yes, Google the name of the school and add its school
website URL to your teacher website.
o If no, Google the name of your elementary/middle/high
school (choose appropriate grade level based on your
focus area) and add its school website URL to your
teacher website.

3. 1. UPDATING THE SCHOOL WEBSITE LINK
ULA Demo
1. Open your teacher website
2. Click on More on the top right hand corner, and click on edit
site layout from the links menu
3. You will see three navigation boxes on the left hand panel.
Click on the third one (the one at the bottom) to edit the
sidebar widget
4. You will see a “School Website” title on the new panel.
5. Double click the school website title and update the URL with
your own school website’s URL.
6. Save your changes.

4. 2. NEWSLETTER
On your teacher website, write the first-day-of-the-semester
newsletter for the students and their parents. Include:
• Welcome the students/parents (or other visitors of your
website)
• Provide your contact information
• Introduce yourself : About Me (as a teacher)
• Announce classroom expectations/rules
• What else?
Tip: Draft this in a Googledoc or Microsoft Word.

5. 3. ADDING GOOGLEMAP TO THE NEWSLETTER
ULA Demo 2: Adding the Google Map to the newsletter/announcement
• Copy and paste your newsletter content to the newsletter page in your
teacher website.
• Open the following link: http://maps.google.com/
• Search your school’s address.
• At the right top of the website, click the link logo.
• Copy the embed code.
• Paste the code to the newsletter page – use the “html panel”
• Submit the link of the Teacher website- Newsletter page to Oncourse –
Assignments – “TIP #3” (Be sure to have the newsletter content, Google
map of the school, and the updated School Website link)