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Using Weebly to publish e-Portfolios - TCEA 2013
1. Valerie Burton presented a workshop on using Weebly.com to create ePortfolios. 2. Attendees would learn how to create a professional ePortfolio for themselves and student samples to use with their classes. 3. Weebly allows users to easily publish websites with pages, photos, videos and other materials to be proud of for years to come.
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Using Weebly to publish e-Portfolios - TCEA 2013
- 1. “Using Weebly.com to Publish ePortfolios” Valerie R. Burton @MsBisOnline TCEA February 7, 2013 Session # 133551
- 2. Let’s create aWeebly.com ePortfolio for yourself or your class that houses essays, photos, digital stories, presentations, videos and much, much more. Publish a site that you will be proud of for years to come. Thursday, 02/07/2013 5:00PM - 6:30PM , Room 10B Format PC Workshop Duration 90-minute
- 3. I am ValerieR. Burton, M. Ed. I am an English Language Arts teacher from New Orleans, Louisiana who looks for all opportunities to integrate technology into my classroom. • I blog. http://2blog2share2learn.edublogs.org/ • I tweet. http://twitter.com/MsBisOnline • I share. http://msbisonline.weebly.com/ Need to contact me? • MsVRBurton@gmail.com or • MsBpresents@gmail.com • (504) 298-9764 • about.me/VRBurton – myself • about.me/BurtonsScholars – my class
- 4. Looking for away to create ePortfolios for you and your students? In this session, we will create an ePortfolio for your professional use, and create a student sample for you to use with your students. Use Weebly.com to publish work, create a blog, and connect with others. Weebly.com for ePortfolios ~ Smore poster http://bit.ly/WeeblyMsB
- 5. Why just writewith pen on paper when you can post to your own website?
- 6. Have you finished posting to your site?
- 7. Weebly for Educators WeeblyEducator is a free website builder for educators and has multiple uses: – Post assignments – Post class information – Import files – Import videos – Import pictures – Create links to other websites – Create digital student portfolios – Create classes and add students – Collect assignments using the Digital Dropbox
- 8. • gain an understanding of the importance of developing an ePortfolio. • gather ideas for developing your own ePortfolio. • see suggestions and examples of what to include in your ePortfolio. • explore framework for building professional portfolios for educators and students. 1. Create an account on Weebly.com 2. Adjust the themes to your preferences 3. Add pages 4. Publish your new ePortfolio website
- 9. VIP links Referral codeto use for 10 extra student accounts • http://bit.ly/MsBWeebly - go here to create your account Weebly's resources • http://www.weebly.com/features.php My Weebly sites • My ePortfolios - http://MsBisOnline.weebly.com • My sample student site - http://SampleEngSite.weebly.com Presentation Slides for this TCEA convention • http://bit.ly/MsBTCEA
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- 12. Already have aWeebly account? Convert your old account to an Educational one and receive all of the benefits.
- 13. Fill in yourschool info .. Or not And then watch a demo, set up a class or create another website.
- 14. What do wantto do with your site?
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- 17. Select the 1stoption, it’s free
- 18. Your site hasbeen Voila! created that quickly.
- 19. Next, we examinethe Tabs • We will quickly look at the tabs that serves as guides for the dashboard. Elements, Design, Pages, Editors and Settings.
- 20. Drag and dropthe elements that you want and need.
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- 22. Many design themes to choose from
- 23. Design options Change themes Change your font size/colors Add phone number Change theme colors Change title size/colors Connect Social media
- 25. You can changethe theme picture by clicking it. When you search for an image, Weebly will show you results from professional photographers, in addition to free Creative Commons images from Flickr.
- 26. Add as manywebpages or blogpages as necessary
- 27. Decide what pages youwant included I use this as a template for my class. I show them this picture so that they know how to set-up their ePortfolio pages.
- 28. Page Types With pagetypes, you have 4 choices: a landing page, large header image, short header image, or no header image.
- 29. Sample pages • Awards/Scholarships • Coursework • Digital stories • Description of community activities • Goals • Links to relevant websites • Plans for career development • Resume • Videos • Special skills / knowledge, technical skills, etc.
- 30. New individual and collaborativeskills are emerging.
- 31. You can addothers (or other email addresses) as editors of your website
- 38. Weebly for Educationis Perfect for You and Your Students • Use it for creating classroom websites, student e- portfolios, and websites for assigned projects. • Their drag & drop website editor is simple to use, and appropriate for use with students of all ages. • Weebly enables your students to express themselves creatively using a variety of multimedia features, all within a protected environment that you control. • No HTML or technical skills required! • Weebly was named one of TIME's 50 Best Websites of the year.
- 39. Weebly for Educationallows you to create sites for students or classroom projects Just click add students
- 40. Weebly is easyto manipulate • Add / Edit text • Change text fonts • Create links • Add PDFs and other documents • Alter page layouts with multiple columns • Upload Images – create a gallery • Create a slideshow
- 41. Many, Many, ManyOptions • Add a calendar • Add a Google map • Add a Twitter feed • Add a search field • Create a contact form • Add an RSS feed • Create a forum • Add an email newsletter or form • Add a poll • Add other embeddable content • Edit HTML/CSS of a theme
- 42. Weebly.com for ePortfoliosand easy websites –Class website – publish announcements, tips and reminders for parents and students –Class ePortfolio – collect assignments and artifacts to be showed off and shared. –Student ePortfolio - highlight classwork, community service activities, awards and recognitions.
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- 45. How I use(or plan to use)… My Weebly sites http://4eportfolios.weebly.com http://MsBisOnline.weebly.com http://SampleEngSite.weebly.com
- 46. Let’s get readyyyyy to publish!!!! I have a Weebly ePortfolio / website… Now What? Well, here comes the fun part now!!!! Here are some things that you can do with your new site
- 47. Collaborative projects Collaboration teamspost • a detailed outline of their project • a log of the conversation and decision-making that went into constructing and executing the project • a final presentation. Each team should design its own assessment rubric by editing a webpage to show all the features of an excellent project.
- 48. Lexicon teams * Eachweek, a team of students will edit a page to collaboratively identify and define key words and phrases from that week’s readings and class discussion.
- 49. E-book teams *Each week,a team of four students works between meetings of class sessions to update an enhanced e-book that includes the notes, lexicon entries, and mindmaps for that week, with graphics, text, and live links. * In addition, e-book teams develop a webpage on best practices and procedures.
- 50. Blog Reflections *Students canbe required to post a short (a few sentences or a short paragraph) synopsis of each reading in the student’s blog. Students can be requested to create • a short dialog between the authors of each week’s texts • list ways in which the subject of the texts could affect the student’s life or society • reflect on the implications of the texts for life online in the future • answer their own key questions from their own perspective
- 51. Real-time note-taking and backchannel • Teams of four take notes using a real-time note-taking handing off to another team every half hour, publishing their notes to the class site after the end of the class session. • Students can use collaborative tools to engage in parallel, relevant online discussion in real time through the web, Facebook, Twitter, or Facebook.
- 52. VIP links Referral codeto use for 10 extra student accounts • http://bit.ly/MsBWeebly - go here to create your account Weebly's resources • http://www.weebly.com/features.php My Weebly sites • My ePortfolios - http://MsBisOnline.weebly.com • My sample student site - http://SampleEngSite.weebly.com Presentation Slides for this TCEA convention • http://bit.ly/MsBTCEA
- 53. Contact me ifyou need me I am an English Language Arts teacher from New Orleans, Louisiana who looks for all opportunities to integrate technology into my classroom. I blog. http://2blog2share2learn.edublogs.org/ I tweet. http://twitter.com/MsBisOnline I share. http://msbisonline.weebly.com/ Need to contact me? MsVRBurton@gmail.com or MsBpresents@gmail.com (504) 298-9764 about.me/VRBurton – myself about.me/BurtonsScholars – my class
- 54. How can Iaccess your handout and presentation if I want them?
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- 56. Session Evaluation • Pleaseprovide feedback on my awesome session through the convention mobile app or online survey at: www.tcea.org/surveys • My session number (133551)
- 57. Thank you forcoming and I hope that you enjoyed the session. Need to contact me? MsVRBurton@gmail.com or MsBpresents@gmail.com (504) 298-9764 about.me/VRBurton – myself about.me/BurtonsScholars – my class