Introduction
The Internet is full of websites designed for commercial use, business use, government use, and use by the general public for various reasons. My goal in creating this website was to unite my students, parents, and local community with valuable aspects of the web while meshing my classroom and the standards I teach with real world and global events. The Internet may at times be, “regarded as corrupt and degrading,” yet despite this, new technologies have a way of, “turning predecessor(s) into an art form” (Mcluhan and Zingrove, 1995). My classroom site was designed to be a vessel that guides my audience through this vast ocean of icebergs and swells in order to sail my learners towards calmer seas. With this website, it is my aim to cast my net out into the ocean of resources and knowledge made available online, in order to harvest for my students, community, and school the most useful of tools and resources that this sea of information has to offer in regards to the education of my fifth graders.
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