Four Good Ways to Use Media In Your Classroom Blog. Watching videos and commenting on them or looking at a picture and commenting on it are the most common ways that teachers have students use media in blog posts.
There is definitely value in those activities as they do get students to think, write, and share. These are some other ways to think about using media in your classroom blog. SoundCloud is a great tool for creating short audio recordings. Those recordings can be embedded into blog posts. The feature of SoundCloud that makes it worth using instead of just embedding a recording from another service is that listeners can tie their comments to an exact moment in a SoundCloud recording. ThingLink is a free tool for creating interactive images.
VoiceThread and Narrable provide platforms for uploading images and hosting discussions around them. Your classroom blog doesn’t have to be serious all the time. Crunchzilla. Mozilla Thimble. Learn to code. Wikispaces Videos and Tours. 11 Free Tools for Creating Websites and Simple Webpages. Last week I wrote about Codecademy's new programs for teaching basic HTML, CSS, and other fundamentals for building websites.
But if you don't have the time or desire to build webpages from scratch there are plenty of free online tools that will do the heavy lifting for you so that you can concentrate on just adding useful content to your course webpages. Here are eleven free services for creating websites and simple webpages. Wix is a free service for creating and hosting beautiful websites. Wix recently announced that their templates and the websites you build with them are now available in HTML5. That means that sites created in Wix are visible on all devices including iPads. Whatfolio is a free service for creating online displays of your digital works. Weebly was one of the first website building tools that I played around with when I got started on my technology integration journey. Yola is the tool that I used a few years ago to build websites for my department at school. SpeakPipe - listen to your customers.
Introducing-the-editable-website-wiki-type. With our latest release, we have introduced the concept of wiki types, and our first new wiki type is the Editable Website.
All of the Wikispaces you know and love are what we are now calling Basic Wikis. They emphasize collaboration and discussion around the content you and your users work on together. But sometimes you just want to put a website up for others to view. You want the easy editing of Wikispaces but you don’t want people visiting your wiki to see all of the editing and discussion functions. For those times, our new Editable Website type is perfect. Getting started When you create a new wiki you’ll be given the option to choose a wiki type. As an organizer you’ll see a rectangular icon in your black global navigation bar at the top of the screen. Try it out Here are some ideas for how to use our new Editable Website wiki type: Create your own website. How are you using our new Editable Website wikis? Make a free website with a free domain name - Webnode.
Weebly - Create a free website and a free blog. Welcome to Posterous Spaces.