Amber Urioste's presentation on creating a professional learning community website emphasizes simplicity in setup and encourages educators to gradually enhance their sites without needing extensive technical skills. Key benefits include saving paper, providing easy access to lessons for absent students, and enabling creative expression for both teachers and students. The presentation outlines practical tools like Weebly for building websites, along with tips for embedding content such as videos and calendars.

1. Professional Learning Community Presentation By Amber Urioste

2. You are probably thinking…… What Hoop do I have to jump through to create my own site? Is it expensive? Is it time consuming? Do I have to be tech savvy? Will it benefit me and my students? You want me to jump through what?

4. Keep it Simple at First You don’t need : Software to create your site A web host for your domain name File transfer host Special permissions Advertising to stay active 1. Start with a simple format and add elements little by little as the year progresses. 2. You don’t have be tech savvy special or be a web designer. 3. Web Sites saves paper and time. Student’s who are absent can view the lesson online or access forms . 4. Update and edit when it is convenient for you without permission!!

5. Weebly for Teachers and Students Teachers Upload your Syllabus Post Exemplary Art Work Links to Scholastic Arts or Museums Upload your PowerPoint's Put instructional videos in your website A web site is like another form of artistic expression Students Upload student art work Artist Statements for Individual Works Students can post images and quotes from their favorite artists Upload a movie or slide show of the students port folio Students like Weebly because it is as easy as Facebook Students can be creative and unique

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7. Teacher Web Sites What do Teachers put in Their Web Sites? Animations, Avatars Class Schedule & Calendar Google Maps Videos and Photos Podcasts & Web Quests PowerPoint Presentations Homework Documents Links to Web Sites Blogs http://sites.google.com/site/kareckscalculuspage http://homepages.wmich.edu/~h2janshe/index.htm http://homepages.wmich.edu/~a1bowen/ http://homepages.wmich.edu/~s0reifsc/ http://paintart.teach-nology.com / http://urioste.weebly.com/ http://aurioste.weebly.com/ http://techpainter.weebly.com/

8. Start your Free Weebly Site with a User Name, Password, and email address. http://www.weebly.com/ http://education.weebly.com/

9. Adding Text to Weebly Before you begin adding text to your Weebly site, always start in Word or a program that has spell check and grammar check. Then copy and paste your data into your site. Weebly will not catch spelling errors. Making too many changes in Weebly to a text file can overload the Weebly editor and can cause you to lose data. If you have already made all your corrections in Word you will avoid the Oops warning when there have been too many changes. Also, you have more varieties in fonts styles and colors in Word.

10. Sign up in Voki for a free avatar account http://www.voki.com/ Then copy the avatar embedded code from Voki and paste it into the HTML Weebly element . http://urioste.weebly.com/

11. Again use the HTML Weebly element to embed your School Tube (15 mins.), YouTube URL code or Flickr code. You get two free short videos to upload a month with Flickr. Each video can be 90 seconds long, and it will not be blocked at school. http://www.flickr.com/

12. How Do I Copy a Movie to Download? Jing – screen capture Zamzar - file converter Real Player – audio and video If you want to save a movie you have found on YouTube, then use the Zamzar, Jing or Real Player to copy a video web site to convert your file to a wmv video or mp4 file and import to Windows Moviemaker . Embed you video into weebly with the HTML element . http://www.jingproject.com/download/ http://www.zamzar.com/ http://www.real.com/realplayer/media-converter

13. Slideshare is a free web site that allows your to download your PowerPoint Presentations. You can store all your presentations, and also view PowerPoint's from other members and download them as well. Embed your PowerPoint into your Weebly Site using the HTML element or you can simply use the File element. http://www.slideshare.net/

14. Two Different Formats to upload a PowerPoint

15. Google Calendars are created using your igoogle page, and you Embed your Calendar into your Weebly Site using the HTML element. Video link on how to embed a Google Calendar http://www.schooltube.com/video/56743/Google-Calendar-for-Weebly-Website-

16. How Do I Make a Movie for my Web Site? Demonstration video link below on how to use Moviemaker, which is a free program on all Windows Computers. http://www.schooltube.com/video/57372/Making-a-Movie-with-Windows-MovieMaker-

17. You Are Now Ready to Create a Web Site! Remember to give your students a reason to STAY TUNED into your Website! http://urioste.weebly.com/ http://aurioste.weebly.com/ http://techpainter.weebly.com/