Communicating on Another Level

IntroductionTrying to fathom how to meet the Common Core

standard of publishing student work? Are you trying to streamline your flow of information to students? Learn how to help your students create their own websites to publish their great work and find out how you can create a site that helps you minimize time spent distributing information and organizing assignments.

My name is Jackie Ingram

Teach 7, 8, 10, English and yearbook at Centre

Discovered weebly.com at Podstock this summer

Last year

Used edmodo.com for assignments

Email full of files

Parents had no way to know what was happening in class

Surveys and recording information on paper

Applications for your classroom

Make information easy to get to all students and parents

Help students publish their work Students can keep an ongoing portfolio

and resume Post assignment details and have

assignments turned in—LESS PAPER!! Create surveys linked to Google Drive Give students access to multi-media you

use in class

Creating Site

Use education.weebly.com More flexibility Assignment form

FREE!

Build as you go or create beforehand

Sign up students to monitor their sites

Clicking “publish” saves any changes and makes them public

Student weebly pages

Older students create own sites and give me domains Pro-Unlimited pages and uploads Pro-Personal and easily updated Con-not monitored

Younger students’ pages created by me Pro-monitored and locked with password Con-limited to 5 pages and pictures Con- limited to 40 students for free

examples

http://allisonlynnbasore.weebly.com/

http://katrinabasore.weebly.com/

Ingramenglish.weebly.com

Surveys

Assignment forms

Videos

Padlet posting links

Powerpoints

Research links

Thinglinks

Documents to download

Blogs/discussion forums

Refer other teachers for credit to buy memberships/tools

Your turn

Discuss with a neighbor how you could use this in your room (3 minutes)

Play with weebly.com

Questions?