Web Site Creation Tools
These are a few of the free web site builders that are used by teachers. No need to learn HTML today in order to create a professional looking web page for your parents and students. All have design templates to choose from and allow you to post information on the world wide web in the form of a text, hypertext links, sound files and video files. Blog sites were originally designed to post discussion threads for a private or public community but are now being used by teachers as their web site complete with calendar, widgets and RSS feeds.
Weebly for Education |
Easy to use with multiple design and navigation schemes and drag and drop elements. Site can be public or private. Students receive an activation code to enroll in your class.
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Google Sites |
A good solution if you would like to have all of your tools in one place. It is easy to hyperlink to Google Drive documents, Google Maps, Blogger, and Google Reader. Select from a variety of templates. You can also control who can see your site.
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Edmodo |
Edmodo is a secure web site portal geared towards social learning and project based learning. Teachers can create units of study with links to web resources, documents, images or videos. Student upload assignments to the web site and are graded online. A great solution to a paperless classroom and to collaborate with others. Parents receive their own login ID. Students can also earn badges for their work.
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Blogs and Wikis
A blog is a Web site on which an individual or group of users record opinions, information, etc. on a regular basis. A wiki is a Web site developed collaboratively by a community of users, allowing any user
to add and edit content.
to add and edit content.
Wordpress |
Many beautiful templates to choose from and very easy to create and edit posts for your students. This site has a very professional look. You can link to blogs that you follow and your Twitter account as well.
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Wikispaces |
A wiki is a space on the Web where you can share work and ideas, pictures and links, videos and media — and anything else you can think of. There are page templates and other features such as emailing notifications to subscribers.
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Edublogs |
More than 1.5 million educators and over 140 templates to choose from. You can create a blog easily to use as a newsletter for parents, post calendar and student work. Easy to moderate discussion threads. Works on Android and iOS devices.
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