Using Weebly in Adult Education

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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http://www.wonder-tonic.com/geocitiesizer/

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

▪ NellE@lacnyc.org

▪ @LACNYCNell

Evaluation http://bit.ly/1km64BF

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MY CONTACT INFO