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USING WEEBLY
N E L L E C K E R S L E Y
L I T E R A C Y A S S I S TA N C E C E N T E R
AGENDA
• Why Weebly?
• Weebly and Weebly for Education
• Some notes about web design
• Basics of creating a Weebly website
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WHY WEEBLY?
• Free website creation tool
• Easy to add content
• Includes tools for most kinds of content (writing, video, links, images)
• Automatically mobile friendly
• Elegant design options
• And did I mention…Free
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WEEBLY.COM
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Weebly Pro Account $39.95
1 Year Subscription
For you and your students
10 sites per account
Unlimited pages per student
website
250 MB file uploads
Audio player
Video player
Embedded documents
Features just for you
Password-protect individual pages
Premium Support
Remove or Customize Weebly
footerhttp://www.weebly.com/pricing#
WEEBLY FOR EDUCATION TEACHERS• Both teachers and students have individual accounts to create a site and perform their
tasks.
• The editor will have similar features like standard drag and drop Weebly editor with limited
features for students. All other activities like site creation and publishing are same as
weebly.com.
What Teachers Can Do?
• Teacher first create the Weebly account using Weebly’s education version and allowed to
perform following two actions:
• Create individual sites – Weebly allows creating up to 10 sites per account (both for free
and pro versions) with unlimited pages on each site. Teachers can use these sites to
showcase their skills, upload tutorials and upload assignments using “Assignment Form”
element.
• Setup a classroom – here teacher creates a classroom setup by creating students
account and viewing student’s site. Teacher can also disable editing on any student’s site.
Free education account allows to create up to 40 students with further upgrade option of
adding each student account for one USD. Students site can be configured as private so
that it will be password protected. Teacher needs to provide this site password to student
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WEEBLY FOR EDUCATION STUDENTS
What Students Can Do?
• Students login to Weebly students site with the user name and password obtained
from the teacher.
• Very limited features are available in a student site. For example, each student is
allowed to create only one site with five pages limit. If teacher’s account is upgraded to
pro then students are allowed to create 10 sites with unlimited pages along with all
Weebly pro features applicable for education version.
• Students can download the assignment from teacher’s site and upload it again. If the
assignment is to create some project then student can update his/her own site with the
project details so that teacher can view it online.
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SAMPLE WEBSITES
• http://adultedtechnologytoolbox.weebly.com/
• http://nelightful.weebly.com/
• http://www.lacnyc.org/
• http://nyccaliteracy.weebly.com/
• http://cnapolitano.weebly.com/
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DOMAINS & URLS
• Dotster https://www.dotster.com/
• Go Daddy https://www.godaddy.com/
• 1 and 1 http://www.1and1.com/
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WEB DESIGN• 1990’s Web Design http://blog.ambitious.me/2012/04/how-websites-
looked-like-in-the-1990s/
• Make any website look like 1990’s http://www.wonder-
tonic.com/geocitiesizer/
• Good Design http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/01/10-principles-
of-effective-web-design/
• User Experience Design
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_experience_design
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WEB CONTENT• Organizing website content (Information Architecture)
https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/03/starting-out-organized-
website-content-planning-the-right-way/
• Creating a Website Outline and Site Diagram (video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umqojkqaTck
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TO CREATE A WEEBLY WEBSITE
• Go to http://education.weebly.com/ or http://www.weebly.com
• To create your account, use an email address
• Use a password you can remember
• Have a URL name idea--your free URL will look something like this
http://nelightful.weebly.com/
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WEEBLY FOR EDUCATION
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WEEBLY DASHBOARD
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CREATING A NEW SITE
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FINDING IMAGES
Coppyright Free, Royalty Free and Creative Commons
• https://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/
• https://pixabay.com/
• http://www.imagesource.com/royalty-free
• http://www.gettyimages.com/creative-images/royaltyfree
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WEEBLY INTERFACE
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http://adultedtechnologytoolbox.weebly.com/
WEEBLY TUTORIALS
• How to do everything http://hc.weebly.com/hc/en-
us/categories/200044378-How-to-Do-Everything
• https://www.youtube.com/user/weebly Video Tutorials
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EVALUATION
• Please fill out the Google form at this link http://goo.gl/forms/uFa3jzkBys
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Nell Eckersley
▪ Literacy Assistance Center
▪ Evaluation http://bit.ly/1km64BF
▪ @LACNYCNell
Evaluation http://bit.ly/1km64BF
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