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Empower Your Classroom with Weebly: A Teacher's Guide to Creating Websites

Explore the benefits of creating a classroom website using Weebly with this comprehensive guide. Learn how to integrate websites into your curriculum, engage students through blogs and online resources, and enhance collaboration with parents. Discover the user-friendly features of Weebly, a versatile website-building platform, and how it can support student engagement, creativity, and digital literacy. Get started with Weebly, a popular choice for educators worldwide, and unlock the potential of technology in education today.

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Empower Your Classroom with Weebly: A Teacher's Guide to Creating Websites

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  1. Presenters: Jeremy Hurd—7th-8th Computer Teacher Brett Deibert—6th-8th Computer Teacher Dakota Middle School Rapid City, SD

  2. Learning Targets for Weebly • Teachers will be able to: • Understand the benefits of creating a classroom website • Understand the background about Weebly • Learn how to use the tools of Weebly to develop website for themselves and their students • Learn how to access resources to support integration of websites into their curriculum

  3. Why Create and Website For Teachers For Students • Share information with students and parents • Post assignments online • Initiate classroom discussions using blogs • Review key concepts using written, auditory, and visual tools • Integrate technology in your classroom • Engage in technology • Increase student writing • sharing their ideas and thoughts with the world • Publish their work and share with other students and family • Apply their own creativity for a product and they can call their own • Have the ability to share research, video, pictures, and more that may be difficult to do on a written assignment

  4. Why Weebly? • Weebly is a San Francisco, California based company that was founded in 2006 • 3 Million Websites have been created • Businesses, Weddings, Churches • Classrooms • Personal • One of TIME’s 50 Best Websites of 2007 •  Weebly is backed by key investors in Silicon Valley, including • Steve Anderson of Baseline Ventures • Ron Conway (original investor in Google)

  5. Getting Started • Signup • http://education.weebly.com • Username • Password • E-mail • Accept Terms of Service • Can Create up to two websites for FREE • 40 Student Accounts

  6. 21st Century Learners

  7. Weebly Features • Easy, Drag & Drop Website Editor • Videos, pictures, maps, and text are added by simply dragging them to your website.– no HTML or technical skills required! • Managed, Protected Environment • Password protect all student websites • Control which websites are public, private • Oversee student’s activity

  8. Weebly Features • Powerful Multimedia Features • Add pics, videos, audio players, documents, maps, and photo galleries • Weebly audio/video players in weebly w/o need for YouTube • Flexible Blogging Features • Post class updates, homework, and news • Unlimited Blogs with full comment moderation

  9. Weebly Features • Its Free! • Free websites are available • 2 Teacher websites and 40 student accounts • Optional Pro Accounts • $39.95/year with 10 accounts for $10 • No Advertising • No advertising on the webpages—EVER!

  10. Weebly Features • 70+ Beautiful Designs (or Customize) • 109 Designs currently to choose from and more added regularly • Templates also have some flexibility for customizing on your own in Weebly editor • Hosting Included—No Restrictions • Weebly does all hosting for webpages • No bandwidth restrictions • No storage caps or limits • 100% online service—nothing to install

  11. Weebly Features • Publish Your Own Domain • If you already have your own domain, use it with Weebly at no charge • Publish own domain name • (ie. www.example.com instead of example.weebly.com) • You have the option to purchase a domain directly within Weebly which they instantly setup, or you can configure a domain that you already own!

  12. Reports of 21st Century Learners

  13. Weebly Features Comparison • Free Version • Text Publishing • Forms • Photo Gallery • Slideshows • Upload Files • Adobe Flash • Google Maps • Embed Video • Blogs • Polls • Custom HTML • Pro Version • Audio Player • Video Player • Embed Documents • 100 MB uploads per file • Unlimited Pages per student website

  14. Weebly Pro and Upgrades • You can purchase additional Pro features for a price • 6 months--$27.95 • 1 year—$39.95 • Additional Student Accounts • 10 Pack--$10.00 • Referral Program • For each teacher you refer to Weebly, they'll give both of you 10 bonus student accounts. • Once you refer 5 teachers, we'll activate Weebly Pro on your account (and all your student accounts) too!

  15. Campus Edition-District/Schoolwide

  16. Campus Edition-District/Schoolwide

  17. Weebly in Action!! • Lets go to the website! • http://education.weebly.com/ • Weebly Tutorials Online • http://weeblyvideotutorials.weebly.com/ • http://www.weeblytutorial.com/ • Also search for YouTube videos on the topic

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