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December 9th, 2009 by sott
Options for Building Your Teacher Website and Why YOU Should
Cyndi Danner-Kuhn, says, “Every educator needs to build and maintain his or her own teacher Website.” I agree with her completely and have tried to do that this year. My parents seemed impressed and grateful that they ( and their child) have access to homework, assignments, and more. I use weebly.com which is very user friendly.
What I don’t like is that you cannot embed anything with the free version. I also have a wiki, so I can do that there. But I wonder, is it necessary to have a website and a wiki for each subject or would it be easier to have everything in one place? I’m sure I will make changes for next year and will be creating a Google form or Poll Daddy for my students to complete. I will ask them for their input on my website and wiki. I want it to be useful and helpful to both students and parents. I researched other teacher websites for ideas on how to design and organize my own site. I sure wish I had “attended” this conference prior to making my website. I struggled with which free site to use, what information should be put on the site, how to organize it and make it user friendly. Cyndi suggests having someone else look at your site. Tell them to find a specific page and see if is easy to locate. If not, you know you need to make some changes. If it’s easy to find, fantastic!
Show this to every reluctant teacher/parent you know!
Song written by Kevin Honeycutt from ESSDACK.
Video Directed/Edited by Shawn Gormley
In this presentation, Colin Hill demonstrates how using an e-book can be an immediate method of displaying children’s work to the WWW, helping sharing work between school and home. This immediate work motivates children in their work, as they know that their families (near and far) get to see their work, as well as the wider global community.
This is another freebie that I am going to play around with. I teach 7th grade Humanities and there is a huge project that is put together at the end of the year. It is an autobiography in which the students compile all of the 40-60 pieces of writing they have done through-out the year. At the moment, my idea is to make an ebook of the actual assignments as a reference for my kids. After I learn more, I am considering having them make digital autobiographies via My E-book.
After playing with it for the last half hour, I am very frustrated. It seems like it should be user friendly but I am having trouble manipulating with the mouse. I had the same problem with Glogster. I am going to take a step back, take a break, and try again at a later time. Sometimes that is all that is needed. Otherwise, I’ll go crazy!
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