1. Valerie Burton presented a workshop on using Weebly.com to create ePortfolios.
2. Attendees would learn how to create a professional ePortfolio for themselves and student samples to use with their classes.
3. Weebly allows users to easily publish websites with pages, photos, videos and other materials to be proud of for years to come.
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Using Weebly to publish e-Portfolios - TCEA 2013
1. “Using Weebly.com
to Publish
ePortfolios”
Valerie R. Burton
@MsBisOnline
TCEA
February 7, 2013
Session # 133551
2. Let’s create a Weebly.com ePortfolio for yourself or your class that houses essays, photos, digital
stories, presentations, videos and much, much more.
Publish a site that you will be proud of for years to come.
Thursday, 02/07/2013 5:00PM - 6:30PM , Room 10B
Format PC Workshop
Duration 90-minute
3. I am Valerie R. Burton, M. Ed.
I am an English Language Arts teacher from New Orleans, Louisiana
who looks for all opportunities to integrate technology into my
classroom.
• I blog. http://2blog2share2learn.edublogs.org/
• I tweet. http://twitter.com/MsBisOnline
• I share. http://msbisonline.weebly.com/
Need to contact me?
• MsVRBurton@gmail.com or
• MsBpresents@gmail.com
• (504) 298-9764
• about.me/VRBurton – myself
• about.me/BurtonsScholars – my class
4. Looking for a way to create
ePortfolios for you and your
students?
In this session, we will create an
ePortfolio for your professional use, and
create a student sample for you to use
with your students. Use Weebly.com to
publish work, create a blog, and connect
with others.
Weebly.com for ePortfolios ~ Smore poster
http://bit.ly/WeeblyMsB
5. Why just write with pen on
paper when you can post to
your own website?
7. Weebly for Educators
Weebly Educator is a free website builder for educators
and has multiple uses:
– Post assignments
– Post class information
– Import files
– Import videos
– Import pictures
– Create links to other websites
– Create digital student portfolios
– Create classes and add students
– Collect assignments using the Digital Dropbox
8. • gain an understanding of the importance of developing an ePortfolio.
• gather ideas for developing your own ePortfolio.
• see suggestions and examples of what to include in your ePortfolio.
• explore framework for building professional portfolios for educators and
students.
1. Create an account on Weebly.com
2. Adjust the themes to your preferences
3. Add pages
4. Publish your new ePortfolio website
9. VIP links
Referral code to use for 10 extra student accounts
• http://bit.ly/MsBWeebly - go here to create your account
Weebly's resources
• http://www.weebly.com/features.php
My Weebly sites
• My ePortfolios - http://MsBisOnline.weebly.com
• My sample student site -
http://SampleEngSite.weebly.com
Presentation Slides for this TCEA convention
• http://bit.ly/MsBTCEA
19. Next, we examine the Tabs
• We will quickly look at the tabs that
serves as guides for the dashboard.
Elements, Design, Pages, Editors and
Settings.
23. Design options
Change themes Change your font size/colors
Add phone number Change theme colors
Change title size/colors Connect Social media
24.
25. You can change the
theme picture by
clicking it.
When you search for
an image, Weebly
will show you results
from professional
photographers, in
addition to free
Creative Commons
images from Flickr.
26. Add as many webpages
or blogpages as
necessary
27. Decide what pages
you want included
I use this as a
template for my class.
I show them this
picture so that they
know how to set-up
their ePortfolio
pages.
28. Page Types
With page types, you have 4 choices: a landing
page, large header image, short header image, or
no header image.
29. Sample pages
• Awards/Scholarships
• Coursework
• Digital stories
• Description of community activities
• Goals
• Links to relevant websites
• Plans for career development
• Resume
• Videos
• Special skills / knowledge, technical skills, etc.
31. You can add others (or other email
addresses) as editors of your website
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38. Weebly for Education is Perfect for
You and Your Students
• Use it for creating classroom websites, student e-
portfolios, and websites for assigned projects.
• Their drag & drop website editor is simple to use, and
appropriate for use with students of all ages.
• Weebly enables your students to express themselves
creatively using a variety of multimedia features, all within
a protected environment that you control.
• No HTML or technical skills required!
• Weebly was named one of TIME's 50 Best Websites of the
year.
39. Weebly for Education allows you
to create sites for students or
classroom projects
Just click add students
40. Weebly is easy to manipulate
• Add / Edit text
• Change text fonts
• Create links
• Add PDFs and other documents
• Alter page layouts with multiple
columns
• Upload Images – create a gallery
• Create a slideshow
41. Many, Many, Many Options
• Add a calendar
• Add a Google map
• Add a Twitter feed
• Add a search field
• Create a contact form
• Add an RSS feed
• Create a forum
• Add an email newsletter or form
• Add a poll
• Add other embeddable content
• Edit HTML/CSS of a theme
42. Weebly.com for ePortfolios and easy
websites
–Class website – publish
announcements, tips and reminders for
parents and students
–Class ePortfolio – collect assignments and
artifacts to be showed off and shared.
–Student ePortfolio - highlight
classwork, community service
activities, awards and recognitions.
45. How I use (or plan to use)…
My Weebly sites
http://4eportfolios.weebly.com
http://MsBisOnline.weebly.com
http://SampleEngSite.weebly.com
46. Let’s get
readyyyyy to
publish!!!!
I have a Weebly ePortfolio /
website… Now What?
Well, here comes the fun part now!!!!
Here are some things that you can do
with your new site
47. Collaborative projects
Collaboration teams post
• a detailed outline of their project
• a log of the conversation and decision-making that
went into constructing and executing the project
• a final presentation.
Each team should design its own assessment rubric
by editing a webpage to show all the features of an
excellent project.
48. Lexicon teams
* Each week, a team of students will edit a
page to collaboratively identify and define
key words and phrases from that week’s
readings and class discussion.
49. E-book teams
*Each week, a team of four students
works between meetings of class sessions
to update an enhanced e-book that
includes the notes, lexicon entries, and
mindmaps for that week, with graphics,
text, and live links.
* In addition, e-book teams develop a
webpage on best practices and
procedures.
50. Blog Reflections
*Students can be required to post a short (a few sentences
or a short paragraph) synopsis of each reading in the
student’s blog. Students can be requested to create
• a short dialog between the authors of each week’s texts
• list ways in which the subject of the texts could affect
the student’s life or society
• reflect on the implications of the texts for life online in
the future
• answer their own key questions from their own
perspective
51. Real-time note-taking
and backchannel
• Teams of four take notes using a real-time
note-taking handing off to another team
every half hour, publishing their notes to
the class site after the end of the class
session.
• Students can use collaborative tools to
engage in parallel, relevant online
discussion in real time through the web,
Facebook, Twitter, or Facebook.
52. VIP links
Referral code to use for 10 extra student accounts
• http://bit.ly/MsBWeebly - go here to create your account
Weebly's resources
• http://www.weebly.com/features.php
My Weebly sites
• My ePortfolios - http://MsBisOnline.weebly.com
• My sample student site -
http://SampleEngSite.weebly.com
Presentation Slides for this TCEA convention
• http://bit.ly/MsBTCEA
53. Contact me if you need me
I am an English Language Arts teacher from
New Orleans, Louisiana who looks for all
opportunities to integrate technology into my
classroom.
I blog. http://2blog2share2learn.edublogs.org/
I tweet. http://twitter.com/MsBisOnline
I share. http://msbisonline.weebly.com/
Need to contact me?
MsVRBurton@gmail.com or
MsBpresents@gmail.com
(504) 298-9764
about.me/VRBurton – myself
about.me/BurtonsScholars – my class
54. How can I access
your handout and
presentation if I
want them?
56. Session Evaluation
• Please provide feedback on
my awesome session through
the convention mobile app or
online survey at:
www.tcea.org/surveys
• My session number (133551)
57. Thank you for coming
and I hope that you
enjoyed the session.
Need to contact me?
MsVRBurton@gmail.com or
MsBpresents@gmail.com
(504) 298-9764
about.me/VRBurton – myself
about.me/BurtonsScholars – my class