Weebly


 * What is Weebly? **

[|What is Weebly? Site]

Weebly is a **free** and **user-friendly** tool for **making websites**. Users can:
 * choose their own design
 * add elements ranging from text and images to polls and slideshows
 * publish their site on Weebly's free domain

Users can upgrade to Weebly Pro for $40/year, which adds elements such as audio and video player and allows users to create additional websites (up to 10 rather than up to 2).


 * What are the benefits of Weebly? **
 * Weebly is easy to use. If you can drag and drop, you can use it!
 * Weebly is free! O.k., so Weebly doesn't run those funny Superbowl commercials like GoDaddy does, but, really...who cares?
 * Weebly looks professional!
 * Students can create their own website and publish it! They can share their links with teachers, friends, and family!
 * A Weebly website provides an alternative to the uninspired research paper.
 * Your Weebly website also has a blog, and you can add RSS feeds!
 * You can accept online homework!


 * Weebly Instructional Activity: **

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Students will create a free weebly account before class. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Students will watch the brief demo video. [] <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Students will choose the right design for their site. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Next, students will add, edit, and order pages for their website. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Finally students will be able to add text and photos to their pages.

**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px;">What else can you do with Weebly? **

**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px;">(1) ** <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Weeblyproject

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 * "Weebly Pro" enables you to upload your own video files, audio files, and YouTube videos straight to your site within minutes. If you have a clear design in mind for what you want to have on your website, you could conceivably create and publish your website within an hour or two, or at least within a day.**


 * You might spend much more time preparing files (such as your own custom-made i-movie files) for Weebly than you will arranging the Weebly site itself because Weebly is so quick and user-friendly. I'll go into greater depth in my demonstration (www.laffinplace.weebly.com), but here are three simple explanations of how to build a Weebly site:**

Short explanation: // Sign up for a Weebly account. Play with each feature. //

Longer explanation: //**First**//, prepare files from as many different programs as you would like to use as sources for data to include on your website. These programs are like different streams that you can bring together into one pool. //**Second**//, use the Weebly toolbars in "Basic" and "Multimedia" modes to drag your files into your website. Edit and rearrange to suit your creative purposes. //**Third**//, share your website!

//**Note**//: your computer may interact with Weebly differently than computers at, for example, the Digital Media Lab at N.C. State's D.H. Hill Library ( http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/digital-media-lab ). The way to get around this is simply to experiment until something works for you. I am reminded of Koehler and Mishra's recommendation that we adopt an attitude of "creative play." It is surprising how such an attitude imposes a natural, flexible order onto the fluid process of learning and creating with new media.

Shortest explanation: Play.


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Student and Teacher Examples: **

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Algebra Class Website]

charlotteperkinsgilman.weebly.com (a multigenre inquiry project)

teachingwriting.weebly.com (basic internet design project)

code Hi everyone,
 * You can also use Weebly for eCommerce.** Consider this website ( **http://ochocolate.weebly.com/** ) along with the short letter I've pasted below. A friend of mine in rural southeastern Ohio started a chocolate business; she uses Weebly to promote her product. You might want to order these chocolates after looking at the pictures she has posted! At the very least, you may be impressed by how a first-time website designer can make a free Weebly site look so professional.

Some of you know and others are now finding out.....I started a business called O'Chocolate. I make decadent chocolate truffles for sale by the piece or as lovely boxed gifts. I hope you enjoy a look around my website (keeping in mind I've never made a website before). Enjoy!

-Stacy

www.ochocolate.weebly.com code