Teachers plunge into cyberspace with their own Web pages

For more than 30 years, English teacher Carol Eubanks-Riccardi has prepared for the start of school by updating lesson plans, honing teaching skills and decorating her classroom. No matter where Eubanks-Riccardi has taught since 1977—across the country and overseas—the routine rarely varied. Until now.

This summer, Eubanks-Riccardi plunged into cyberspace. The result is a Web page that provides her seventh-graders at Hazelwood Central Middle School with reading lists and assignment deadlines, while keeping their parents abreast of what is transpiring in their children's English class over the coming year.

"It's the way we live now," said Eubanks-Riccardi, a north St. Louis County native thrilled to be teaching in the district where she was educated. "Our kids don't learn by the sit-down-and-shut-up school of teaching anymore. They learn through technology." Read more in The Saint Louis Post-Dispatch online.