Weeblyhttp://www.weebly.com
Weebly is a Web 2.0 tool that allows you to create a FREE, yes I said FREE website! Weebly is fully equipped with common editing tools and options such as uploading pictures, videos, blogs, and more. You can choose from a host of eye-catching templates including business, educational, fun, colorful, and more. Weebly will host your website for free by allowing you to create an available name for your page and adding the suffix weebly.com OR you can create a personalized domain and register it through Weebly for a rate discounted from a leading online host site. Some other features available through this site include hosting with no restrictions, professional designs, variety of media content elements, blogging features, no advertising, and the option to convert your free account to a paid account where you can publish to your own domain.
Weebly is a powerful tool for classroom use because I could use it to create pages with curriculum material for my students to explore for practice at home or at school. The site could include links to other pages, games, videos, pictures, and more. The site could be used as a type of classroom newsletter. Instead of printing a newsletter, you could refer parents and others to the class website. It could be a way of keeping parents and administrators informed as well as displaying student work and activities going on in the classroom. Because the it is free to host your site, teachers everywhere could use this tool without using personal or school allotted funds. This would be exciting news to any teacher I know! The other great plus for educators, is that this free site doesn’t host advertising unless you choose it as an option. When working with children, this is a very important feature.
This is one of the top tools being used right now. Great choice.
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