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Creating a Website Using Weebly in Education

Workshop Objectives:
  • Understand how web publishing supports the Common Core and
    21st century learning
  • Set up a free Weebly in Education account
  • Learn how to start your website using the basic features and how these meet your purpose
  • Add and manage student accounts
online survey tools
Why Weebly?
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Other free online website builders:
  • Webstarts - http://webstarts.com/
  • Moonfruit - http://www.moonfruit.com/
  • Doodlekit - http://www.doodlekit.com/
  • Yola - https://www.yola.com/
  • Weebly - http://www.weebly.com/
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Weebly for Education - http://education.weebly.com/
  • Allows you to build a free classroom website
  • Allows your students to build sites, too
  • Up to 40 students ($10 for groups of 10 more)
  • Students can turn in homework online

***NOTE: You can only have one type of site (education or regular) with each email address you use

Getting Started 
  • Set up your account at http://education.weebly.com/
  • Start by adding students - add in a fictitious student for now - you can delete it later
  • Set student accounts to private
***NOTE: You must have parent permission for students under the age of 13.  Students can have private or public pages and it is highly recommended for students under the age of 13 to have private pages.

Weebly, Common Core, and Blooms Taxonomy

W.4.6. With some guidance and support from adults, use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing as well as to interact and collaborate with others; demonstrate sufficient command of keyboarding skills to type a minimum of one page in a single sitting.

RI.8.7. Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of using different mediums (e.g., print or digital text, video, multimedia) to present a particular topic or idea.

SL.11-12.2. Integrate multiple sources of information presented in diverse formats and media (e.g., visually, quantitatively, orally) in order to make informed decisions and solve problems, evaluating the credibility and accuracy of each source and noting any discrepancies among the data.

SL.11-12.5. Make strategic use of digital media (e.g., textual, graphical, audio, visual, and interactive elements) in presentations to enhance understanding of findings, reasoning, and evidence and to add interest.
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TeachThought Staff. "14 Brilliant Bloom’s Taxonomy Posters For Teachers." TeachThought. N.p., 7 Apr. 2013. Web. 23 Oct. 2013.

Planning Your Content

What essential information should you include on your classroom webpage?
http://padlet.com/wall/cue13weeblywall
Using Padlet:
  • Organize content into groups (pages)
  • Determine  the hierarchy of the pages

Designing Your Website
Hands-on Steps:
  • Determine theme - under Design
  • Decide on layout - under Pages
  • Customize design (colors, fonts, etc) - under Design

Add page elements - under Build:
  • title box
  • textbox
  • image
  • assignment form - edit to remove email address, or possibly customize that field
  • hyperlink

Add additional pages - under Pages

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Student Webpages
Students have a different location to login - http://students.weebly.com

Hands-on steps:
  • Create a website for your fictitious students.
  • Create a blog page - under Pages

Return to your teacher page
  • Go to My Students
  • Refresh page to see student page listed


Additional Resources

Other teacher Weebly Sites
  • List of Weebly Teacher Sites
  • 2nd Grade Website - Lustgraaf's Learners
  • 4th Grade Website - Mrs. Buck's Math Class
  • High School Website - Mr. Bartlett's Class
  • Middle School Website - Ayden Middle School

Create a webpage for the National History Day Contest

Images Sites
  • Microsoft Clipart
  • RGB Stock 

Blogging Lessons/Resources
  • Paper Blogging by Notes from McTeach (Karen McMillan) -  
  • Weebly Blog by Karen McMillian
  • Ms. Cassidy's Student's Blogs 
  • Digitally Speaking / Blogging includes checklists and teacher tips for blogging with students - 
  • Google Drive Blogging Rubric 
  • Scholastic's How to Use Blogs - Grades 3-5 

Video Resources
Hippo Campus 

Tutorials on How to Use Weebly
  • Beginners Guide to Weebly
  • Weebly Student Tutorial
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  • Presentations
    • All I Really Need to Lead I Learned as a Teacher
    • Digital Accessibility for Office Staff
    • My Drive Ate My Files!
    • Walking the IT - Ed Tech Tightrope
    • Creating a Website Using Weebly in Education
    • Online Curating: Using Learnist and Pinterest in Education
    • Just Pin It! Pinterest in the Classroom
    • Building Community in an Online Classroom
    • PowerPoint How-to's, Must Do's and Definite Don'ts
    • Research + Graphic Design = Effective Graphic Organizers!
  • Workshops
    • But I'm Not a Blogger
    • Integrating the Arts Into Powerful Infograpics
    • Flipping for YouTube
  • Professional Portfolios
    • CTO Mentor Program
    • LEC Administrator
    • LEC Professional Learning Leader
    • LEC Online and Blended Teacher
  • About Kim