1. IN-CLASS WORKOUT #3
Newsletter

2. UPDATING THE SCHOOL WEBSITE LINK
• REMEMBER THE WHOLE IDEA OF THE TEACHER
WEBSITE!!!
• Now, it is time decide on your school (where you work)
o Is there a dream school you want to be hired in the
future? 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. UPDATING THE SCHOOL WEBSITE LINK
ULA Demo
1. Open your teacher website
2. Click edit sidebar under the links menu on the left side of your
page
3. On the opening page, you will see three navigation boxes.
Click “edit” on the third one (the one at the bottom)
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. NEWSLETTER
Think yourself as a teacher, and write the first-day-of-the-semester
newsletter for the students and their parents.
What to include in this newsletter?
• Welcome the students/parents (or other visitors of your
website)
• Provide the teacher contact information
• Introduce yourself: About Me (as a teacher)
• Announce classroom expectations/rules
• What else?
Tip: Sometimes web-based platforms freeze or crash, deleting all
the texts you typed. To avoid frustration, type this in a Microsoft
Word file first.

5. 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 – “ICW #3” (Be sure to have the newsletter content,
Google map of the school, and the updated School Website link)