Weebly - http://www.weebly.com
Weebly is a great web 2.0 tool for easily creating a web site for use with your students. One of the nice things about weebly is the ability to quickly and easily set up a web site without knowing anything about a web site. It allows you to click and drag to set up your web site. They provide dozens of designs for you to choose from or allow you to upload your own. Plus, you can add all types of design elements from videos to pictures to maps to blogs and more. Making changes is as simple as clicking, dragging and typing.
Some of the added benefits that Weebly provides for educators are no ads, completely free hosting and allows for up to 40 student accounts. With the student accounts your students can communicate back and forth through blogs that as the teacher you have full control over. Plus, with the accounts, students can upload their assignments to you whether they are at home, school or vacation they can still turn in that report to you. In addition, the student accounts are allowed to set up their own web sites and you can password protect them if you would like.
Another great use is to keep parents informed of what is going on in your classroom. By setting up a blog, you can quickly and easily let parents know what is coming up in your classes so that they can help their son/daughter be ready for school.
Weebly has been adding more and more features over a short period of time and promises that there are more to come. I cannot wait to see what is next.
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