This document describes a hands-on lab session to teach attendees how to use Weebly.com to create ePortfolios for themselves or their students. The session will show how to design a Weebly site by dragging and dropping elements, choosing from design themes, and adding pages. Attendees will learn how to publish an ePortfolio on Weebly that can house essays, photos, presentations and videos.

1. “Weebly.com for
ePortfolios”
Valerie R. Burton
@MsBisOnline
LACUE, November 27, 2012

2. “Weebly.com for ePortfolios”
Description: Want to create and publish an ePortfolio
for yourself or your students? If so, let me help you
design a Weebly.com ePortfolio for yourself or your
class that houses essays, photos, digital stories,
presentations and videos. Publish a site that you will
be proud of for years to come.
• Tuesday, November 27, 2012 - 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
• Room: Magnolia at the Hilton Hotel
• Type of Session: Hands-On Lab (1 hr. 45 min.)
• Audience: All

3. http://www.weebly.com/

5. Select the type of site

6. Select a category

7. Select the 1st option, it’s free

9. Drag and drop the elements
that you want and need.

10. Elements to choose from

11. Many design themes
to choose from

14. Design options

15. Social Media Icons & Phone Numbers
All themes have areas for social media icons and phone
numbers at the top of your site. Just hover over the
icons to link them to your social media profiles and
click the text to type your phone number or other
message. These fields can be turned off under the
"Design Options" area.

16. Page Types
With page types, you have 4 choices: a landing
page, large header image, short header image,
or no header image.

17. When you search
for an image,
Weebly will show
you results from
professional
photographers,
in addition to
free Creative
Commons
images from
Flickr.

18. Button Element
The new button element is simple, but
powerful. Drag it on, hover over it,
choose the desired style, and set the
destination link.

19. Add as many webpages
or blogpages as
necessary

23. This is the template I used for my class

27. Why Weebly.com?
http://www.weebly.com/features.php

29. Many, Many, Many Options

30. Many, Many, Many Options

31. Valerie R. Burton, M.Ed.
English Teacher, West Jefferson High
School in New Orleans, LA
Email: MsVRBurton@gmail.com
Twitter - @MsBisOnline
Den Star
Intel Trainer
Technology Model Classroom winner
Weebly sites
http://4eportfolios.weebly.com
http://MsBisOnline.weebly.com
http://SampleEngSite.weebly.com

32. Image from http://www.piclits.com/