Academic Musings & Tech for Learning

Weebly is a free online web page creation and publishing site. I’ve been working on a Weebly site, Tek4Ed, site to replace my GooglePages site and have found it to be very user-friendly, complete with drag and drop editing. They now have a special service just for educators. Features include:

• Managed, protected environment with easy password protection
• Easily add Multimedia features including videos, photos and more
• FREE ..  and includes 40 student accounts for teachers. You  can buy more, too, in packs of 10 for $10, and you can upgrade to a Pro account for $39.95/year
• NO Advertising!

Weebly provides over 70 templates with the added flexibility to completely customize your own, and it’s all hosted for free by Weebly. You can also use your own domain name at no extra charge.

You can create blogs at Weebly, too. However, I couldn’t find a way to import or export posts, which means I’ll keep using other blogging engines that do, such as this one which using WordPress.

By the way, tomorrow “Using Weebly to Design Classroom Websites” with special guest Dan Veltri will be the Classroom 2.0 webinar session. Details are at http://live.classroom20.com. If you miss it, check out the archives  at http://live.classroom20.com. Click on the “Archive and Resources” page to view the past recordings.

Weebly – For Educators

Weebly – Free Website and Blog for Everyone

FREE Quick Reference guides from CustomGuide are available for many versions of MS Office software, Windows OS, using the MAC, and some Adobe software products (up to CS3). These make a great hand-out for students and workshop participants.

CustomGuide – Free Computer Training Quick References, Cheat Sheets.

The company allows you to

• Distribute them at your organization.
• Forward them to users with support issues.
• Post them on your organization’s Website.

I first saw these on CTAP, The California Technology Assistance Project (CTAP) another site with great resources for using technology in the classroom.

www.Classtools.net website has an online tool that lets you create educational games, activities and diagrams in a Flash!, using Flash. You can then host your creations on your own website, or blog, though I was unable to embed it here. There’s no signup or passwords and it is free.

Here’s an example of the Dustbin game I created about musical instrument families.

Click here for full screen version

In addition to a few flash games, there’s a countdown timer available with music, a random name selector and a variety of graphic organizers.