Transcript Communicating on Another Level

Introduction
Trying 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?