Opportunities for Community Involvement: Extended Learning Schools offer extended learning opportunities to a variety of audiences and through several methods. Schools can extend learning opportunities on campus or can expand schooling to the home environment. Schools can also offer extended learning opportunities to the larger community, thus enforcing the important goal of "lifelong learning" for students, staff, parents, and community members. Homework is perhaps the most common method for extending schooling to the home. Supplying books and other materials for students to perform research, practice skills, and create projects is commonplace in virtually every classroom in every school. Homework can involve more than students. Schools can make concerted efforts to involve parents and other community members by providing handouts and training for parents, and supporting out-of-school work with mentors in face-to-face settings or by phone. Schools are also providing Web-based material or tools that support greater access to resources. Teachers do not have to create all of their Web-based content but can shepherd students to valid, reliable sources to delve more deeply into content that is presented initially in class. Web-based presentation of information also helps parents and agencies that support schools, such as libraries and museums, better organize and prepare their own resources to support the school's curriculum. Some schools are experimenting with the hardware side of the equation by providing portable computers and handheld devices that help students access instructional materials both at school and at home. TeacherWeb Parents, students, and teachers benefit when information about class activities and homework assignments is posted to Web sites that are available in homes. If teachers are not skilled enough or if they do not have time to invest in creating their own sites, they can easily post information to a Web page using the free interface available from TeacherWeb. This easy-to-use tool allows teachers to create a Web site and post updates to announcements, homework, calendar information, and other information—simply by typing directly into a Web page. No special coding is required. The tool is driven by a database and school districts that wish to customize this idea can replicate it for their district if they have a Web server and a little programming expertise.