Weebly is an online, free, widget-based Web site creator. It uses a widget style format, allowing users to create pages with only a few clicks by dragging and dropping different page elements (images, text, or interactive content, etc.) onto a page and filling in the content.
I created my weebly web page easily and quickly. It is also simple to add paragraphs, movies, images or audio. Students will be able design a web page without any difficulties as it tells what you can do next by showing it with arrows.
Grade three and upwards will be able to use this website for projects inside and outside of school. It has many more programs than a wiki has, but still simple and easy to understand. Please go and see my weebly site, I have only added a little bit, but I will be definately be adding more to it as the weeks go by. Toni's Weebly
I would use the study of dinosaurs to use in a weebly site, as students can add videos and images of dinosaurs. They can add their own activities for other students to do, or choose a safe activity from another websit to put in. Other weebly uses could be an interactive book report, or for early childhood learning managers a recipe book.
References:
Wikipedia.org (2010). Weebly. Retrieved from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weebly 20th August, 2010
Thanks for the idea for a lesson! We are currently doing dinosaurs in my EPL2 class and my kids would love something like this. Catherine van Moolenbroek
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ReplyDeleteI also enjoyed creating a simply, easy website. The simplicity of creating this website however, brough forward the issue of security associated with students using this technology and including personal information but also the notion that any person can add and edit information on the Internet, making researching information and evaluating its authenticity something to be considered.
Thank you Sara. I havent really thought about the security issues and the authenticity that comes with weebly. I will ensure to remember this in future reference.
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