UEN and Pioneer

What?
In class we learned about the UEN website. (Which stands for Utah Education Network, if I remember correctly.) This was a website I had heard about from family members who work in education, including my wife, who told me her school is going to have all the teachers use the UEN websites. I learned that UEN provides a personal and public page to each teacher. The theater metaphor helped me understand the value of a set-up like this. We also learned how to set up the website and some of the uses of each function.
So What?
UEN provides yet another tool that teachers can use to get organized and allow parents and students to be on the same page. As I mentioned above, they will soon implement the use of the UEN website at the school my wife teaches at. They are doing this so that teachers can put their assignments online, thus eliminating the need for students to come and get an assignment they've lost. This is only one of the many ways UEN and pioneer can be used, there is still much I have to learn about these tools which leads me to the...
Now What?
Now it is up to me to learn more about these sites which I plan to start doing through the assignment given in class. (I've been out of town the last few days.) I would like to learn how to set up my personal page better and how to quickly transfer the information from there to my public page (or staging area.) I would also like to learn how the Pioneer website can help me find teaching material, lesson plans, curriculum standards etc. So that I have these tools at my disposal now and when I become a teacher.