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Maximize Student Learning – with Weebly

Maximize Student Learning – with Weebly. Eric Bothur , Midlands Technical College Kristi Bothur , Richland School District Two. What is Weebly ?. Not this:. What is Weebly ?. w eebly.com Drag and drop website builder WYSIWYG One of Time Magazine’s top fifty websites of 2007

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Maximize Student Learning – with Weebly

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  1. Maximize Student Learning – with Weebly Eric Bothur, Midlands Technical College Kristi Bothur, Richland School District Two

  2. What is Weebly? Not this:

  3. What is Weebly? • weebly.com • Drag and drop website builder • WYSIWYG • One of Time Magazine’s top fifty websites of 2007 • Two levels of websites – free and pro

  4. How a website can enhance your teaching • Provide information about your courses, tools for students • www.esolwithmrsb.weebly.com • www.drbothur.weebly.com

  5. How a website can enhance your teaching • Provide information about your courses, tools for students • Professional website for yourself and your career • www.kbothur.weebly.com

  6. How a website can enhance your teaching • Provide information about your courses, tools for students • Professional website for yourself and your career • Assign student projects to enhance their learning and interest • Teach website design without needing expertise in HTML code • Use websites as a mode for nontraditional projects • Research assignments: http://esolwithmrsb.weebly.com/student-research-websites.html • Photography/writing portfolios: http://esolwithmrsb.weebly.com/poetry-project.html • Professional website/resume

  7. Why Weebly? • One repository for information • Information available before and after semester • Easy to adjust • Quick to make changes • No need to transfer information from semester to semester • Alternative during platform downtime • Engages students in a new and different way • Allows many forms of media and interaction

  8. Weebly free features • 10 websites per account • 100+ themes to choose from • Traffic stats • Free domain hosting • No forced advertising • Social icons element • Add other site “editors” as needed • Built-in drag and drop features: • Blogging • Photo galleries, slideshows • Forms • Surveys • Unlimited pages • Unlimited storage (max 10 MB per file) • Unlimited bandwidth • Embedded documents

  9. Weebly Pro features ($4-8 per month per site) • HD video player • Audio player • More detailed traffic stats • Password-protected pages • Site search • Add editors for specific pages • Replace Weeblyfooter message with your own, including a menu • 100 MB file uploads • File upload field • Slideshow banner as header

  10. Special features Educational sites Designer Platform • Ability to password-protect student files, allowing a teacher to control student accounts • Get 40 student accounts (for five-page websites); bundles of 10 available for purchase • Have students upload assignments • Build websites for clients • Built-in theme editor • Weebly charges you according to the number of pages in a site, but only after it is published; you then charge your clients and make money that way.

  11. Steps to creating a Weebly website • Go to the Weebly support center to find step-by-step directions • Determine the purpose of your site – personal, professional, course-based, marketing, etc. • Choose a theme – consider the look you want, horizontal vs. vertical menus. • Plan your site and name your pages. • Indent pages to create subpages. • Use the drag and drop editor to fill your pages with content • Link information on your pages to other online sites, to documents in your site, or to other pages on your site. • Create a site map • Consider “hiding” some pages from your menu and linking to them in other ways to declutter the appearance.

  12. Some tips • Don’t get your domain name through Weebly – too expensive; GoDaddy is much better (a Weebly domain is free). • Websites created through Weebly cannot be moved to another host. If you move hosts, you have to start all over. • Educational website is best for K-12 educators, with protected student sites, etc. However, the features on these sites are beneficial because you do not have to pay for Pro service to get them (e.g. uploading files). • Plan your site (pages, subpages) in advance. • When linking to other online sites, choose “open a new window” to prevent your reader from navigating away from your site.

  13. Try it for yourself! • It’s great to hear about tools and resources, but in order to really learn something we need practice. • weebly.com

  14. Contact us in the future We would enjoy hearing your Weebly success stories, so please go to the website and share them with us. Eric Bothur bothure@midlandstech.edu (803) 790-7586 Kristi Bothur kbothur@att.net

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