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Website creation provides students with many outlets for creativity. Whether for  a single assignment, an ongoing project, or the classroom itself, websites allow students to present the content they know while developing their skills in organization and representation.

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Supporting Examples
Additional Resources
Platforms
How to Incorporate in the Classroom

Common Website Builder Platforms:

Excellent Platform Option: Weebly for Education

  • Free teacher and student accounts

    • Up to 40 student accounts

    • Teacher maintains students' log-in information and controls the privacy settings

    • Ad-free student login page

  • Teacher site is published and searchable; students' sites are searchable, but password protected

  • Length of Time: can be on going (e.g., class website updated frequently) or a one-time assignment (e.g., students create a website to serve as a portfolio). 
     

  • Elementary/Middle School Format:

    • Teacher makes a classroom website 

      • Students contribute content (e.g., a page about themselves) and/or ideas (e.g., how to format).

        • Builds classroom community

    • Website monitored and maintained by teacher​
       

  • Middle/High School Format:

    • Students create their own websites

    • Websites are maintained by the student

      • Teacher can receive a link to the site to monitor

    • Scaffolding: write out headings and sub-headings of website before creating it digitally

    • Content: research from external courses or authentic work 

    • Freedom of choice within assignment guidelines
       

  • ​​K-12 Components:

    • Teacher models website creation using one of their own websites, such as the class website.

      • Model how to create a website

      • Discuss digital citizenship, copyright, etc.

         

Goals: objectives are aligned with state standards and the NETS*S

  • CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.K.6-W.11-12.6
     

Rubrics:

  • Elementary: no rubric for classroom website

  • Secondary: rubric for website assignment

    • Measurable categories (format, content, conventions)

      • E.g., organization, use of graphics, specific artifacts included (external resources or personally produced artifacts)

Weebly for Education Features: see here for features and access to support while creating a Weebly website.

 

Scholastic Teachers: see here for Scholastic's list of the benefits of classroom websites and tips on how to create a website.

 

Website Builder Comparison Chart: see here for a chart comparing some of the major website builders (i.e., Weebly, Wix, Squarespace, Jimdo, IM Creator, and Webs).

Assessing Websites

Blogspot: Ms. Price's 2nd Grade Class

BJ Smith Elementary School

Mesquite, Texas

  • Class website contains parent and student resources

  • Blog is updated frequently to keep parents informed.

  • Student-created work contributes to blog posts (e.g., photos, ShowMe and Animoto videos, etc.).

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School-Based Website: High School Capstone Project

New Tech High School

Napa, California

  • Students' capstone project is creating a website that highlights their learning and future amibitions

    • Contents: goals,  resume, personal statement, learning outcomes, letter(s) of recommendation​

    • See here for a sample student website

Citations:

"Common Core State Standards." National Governors Association Center for Best Practices, 2010. Web. 7 Mar. 2014.

Ms. Price's Second Grade 2013-2014. N.p., Aug. 2013. Web. 7 Mar. 2014.

"NTHS Sample Portfolios." New Technology High School . New Technology High School, 2011. Web. 7 Mar. 2014. 

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