Useful Technology Resources- Weebly

Weebly

Plus	Minus	Interesting
C Add your own flavour to the website C Add images, links, videos from youtube, home made or vokis. C Single page author C Teachers can create the website and be easily accessible to students C Easy to navigate around the page with visual clues such as headings, texts C Cater for all different learning styles by using different technology resources such as audio, visual and its hands on.	D Teachers cannot see how much the website is accessed by students. D Once published it is online and anyone can view this site created. D Teachers cant post feedback onto the site for students to view.	A Enable active participation within the classroom A Teachers can scaffold the learning through the use of chronological activies A Students can access the site at home if they want to catch up on work or produce more work A Teachers can make it for assessment purposes and enable the students to create their own to demonstrate their knowledge through ICT’s.

After previously using weebly as an assessment piece in SOSE in term three, I believe that it was effective, especially if it was given to students for classroom purposes. It enables the teacher to scaffold the learning in different ways to cater for the learning styles of students. If the teacher uses the site and make it as visually and actively appealing as they can, weebly can be an effective way to engage their learners through the use of technology. It gives them an insight to how a web page can be developed and demonstrate their understanding of content being learnt. It can even cater for those students who are possibly gifted and talented, as an enrichment task. This being because they might be able to specifically demonstrate their exceptional abilities within one strand, but by using the ICT’s this might slow it down and them have to successfully step up in another area.

CLASSROOM TIP: Teachers can set up a weebly webquest to scaffold the learning. It can either be used as a collaborative working tool, but also can be great to encourage independent learning.

CLASSROOM TIP: Target audience can be students of any age, a web quest as a whole group task can be specifically designed for learners of six to eight years old. Whereas, you could group students from ages 9-11 as a collaborative group task and any age up set a web quest up for students to work indepedently.