Design Your Own Website
The website you are using right now was designed using Weebly, and trust me, I have absolutely no knowledge of html, java, flash, or any other coding, scripting, or language that once would have been absolutely necessary to build a webpage.
Weebly is an unbelievably simple tool that allows ANYONE to build a webpage - all you need to do is drag and drop the elements that you want (text, photos, text with photos, photo galleries, videos, forms, surveys . . . ) onto your page. It's that easy!! Be sure to go to the educators' version - http://education.weebly.com -- to have access to tools especially for educators (the homework submission form, where students can submit a file right on your webpage, is one great example).
TIME TO THINK: How will you use the website that you create? To deliver material? To house multimendia, then link to the page from inside Blackboard? For student projects? ePortfolios? Here are some sample Weebly pages (and uses):
Weebly is an unbelievably simple tool that allows ANYONE to build a webpage - all you need to do is drag and drop the elements that you want (text, photos, text with photos, photo galleries, videos, forms, surveys . . . ) onto your page. It's that easy!! Be sure to go to the educators' version - http://education.weebly.com -- to have access to tools especially for educators (the homework submission form, where students can submit a file right on your webpage, is one great example).
TIME TO THINK: How will you use the website that you create? To deliver material? To house multimendia, then link to the page from inside Blackboard? For student projects? ePortfolios? Here are some sample Weebly pages (and uses):
- http://economicsrocks.weebly.com - just messing around, incorporating various multimedia elements (changing template image, adding photo gallery, adding YouTube video)
- http://drmcglasson.weebly.com - "Of Cabbages & Kings" is my generic site name when I'm not yet sure what my site will be about. I was practicing photo editing to create the banner.
- http://schwarzhp2009.weebly.com - Honors student project site about the World Bank.
- http://econhonorsproject.weebly.com - Honors student project site evaluating YouTube videos on Economics topics
- http://christinacannell.weebly.com - Country Analyst Final Project site by a student in one of my Macroeconomics classes.
- http://wishidknownearlier.weebly.com - Hindsight is 20/20 - what have you learned in life, that if you'd just known earlier . . . ?
Now it's your turn . . .
Create a Weebly website of your own! You will be using it throughout the week to incorporate tools from the workshop. Remember, when you see the green check mark, it means that this is a required element for the TechFest week. Be sure to check each item off your list when it's complete!
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STEP 3: EDIT & PUBLISH YOUR WEBPAGE.
NOTE: AS OF AUGUST 2013, THE WEEBLY INTERFACE HAS CHANGED! All of the functionality is the same, but the editing area looks different. The updated handout below reflects these changes.
NOTE: AS OF AUGUST 2013, THE WEEBLY INTERFACE HAS CHANGED! All of the functionality is the same, but the editing area looks different. The updated handout below reflects these changes.
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HERE'S ANOTHER HANDOUT THAT PEOPLE FIND USEFUL . . .
If you want to create active (or "hot") links in your text, you can download these instructions:
If you want to create active (or "hot") links in your text, you can download these instructions:
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