I'm Stacy. I've been teaching 7th grade at Parker School  for six years now so I still remember clearly what it was like before I started using KeepandShare last Spring to facilitate and ease my teacher-parent communication.  In short, it seemed it was always a blizzard of paper I was sending home with the kids.  The worst of it was that I never knew if the parents even got the paper or, just as problematic, if the parents could ever find it again once their children had dutifully given it to them.

Now, with KeepandShare, I keep all classroom information online in a simple web site "parker7th.KeepandShare.com" that I was able to create using KeepandShare's built-in Share Page editor.  It was important to me that KeepandShare can require login so if I choose to protect it, only my classroom parents can access the information on it.  Equally important, I was able to keep the information fully up-to-date with just 1-2 minutes a week - I simply cut and paste school calendars, notices, classroom schedules, homework assignments, etc. from Microsoft Word right into the KeepandShare editor and hit the "Save and Exit" button.  My share page is updated! My latest idea was to start posting student awards on the share page.  

I don't have a laptop, but I have a PC at home and after hours at the school I can use any of the student PC workstations (they're all connected to the internet these days). I have found that I like preparing all of my school documents (lesson plans, handouts, etc.) right in KeepandShare because the documents are then available to me from both my home PC and the school stations. 

What's very impressive is that I was able to start using KeepandShare without any school administration, computer support or IT department or other involvement or "support."  I simply created my "parker7th" account by registering online at KeepandShare. Then I told Joe in school IT to add KeepandShare.com to the list of allowed web sites the school internet filters will pass through.   Now some of the other middle school teachers are starting to take note and seem interested in creating their own KeepandShare based classroom accounts!

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