Student Webpages

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Permalink Reply by Mary Howard on May 7, 2009 at 5:21pm

You can try glogster--this allows the students to create their own interactive poster online. One other option is to create a master wikispace account under a generic class name and your e-mail address. Then build individualized pages--one for each student under that umbrella account. They would all log in with the same name and then access their page. www.wikispaces.com

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Permalink Reply by Ann Marie Dlott on May 8, 2009 at 5:18am

Thanks for your response. I'll look into these.

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Permalink Reply by Art Bentheim on May 8, 2009 at 7:08pm

I use PBWorks (They just changed their name from PBWiki). When your account is set up as an educator account you can manually create student accounts with username and passwords. It is a great way to keep everything in one area and it is free! Feel free to look at what my students have done at http://www.mrbentheim.com.

The site again is http://www.pbworks.com

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Permalink Reply by Jennifer Weiss on May 13, 2009 at 11:31am

Wikispaces also allows you to create user accounts for your students if your account is set up as an education wiki.

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Permalink Reply by Larry Blodgett on May 14, 2009 at 11:44am

I'm an Itrt in Accomack County. This school year I worked with a teacher who wanted to start using more technology in her classroom. During the course of the year she created a class webpage, used wordpress for blogging, google docs for on line collaboration, and had her students use wikispaces to create the following; http://famouspeopleinushistory.wikispaces.com/ I think this is an outstanding example of how technology can be used to bring out the best in students. Check out the quiz (the link is over on the sidebar). You'll see her approach outlined at the top of the page.

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Permalink Reply by A Dlott on May 15, 2009 at 4:51am

Thanks so much for these great suggestions. It's wonderful to be able to look at ways that other teachers are using 21st century tools for teaching and learning.

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Permalink Reply by Cheryl Lagan on May 15, 2009 at 10:32am

thanks, this is truly amazing!

Art Bentheim said:

I use PBWorks (They just changed their name from PBWiki). When your account is set up as an educator account you can manually create student accounts with username and passwords. It is a great way to keep everything in one area and it is free! Feel free to look at what my students have done at http://www.mrbentheim.com.

The site again is http://www.pbworks.com

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Permalink Reply by seantm on May 23, 2009 at 9:47am

Dear Anne,

I would've answered you sooner but I only recently joined this ning and am still getting in the habit of stopping in to read and participate. Anyway, I've been doing Ed Tech for about 10 years now and may be able to give you some tips. Depending on my students level, ability and the available resources I've had them create websites from hand coding -html to push button publishing web sites like GoogleSites. These days however, with the advent of the whole so called "web2.0" generation of the internet there's myriad options out there i.e., wiki's, blogs, and ready made template based sites much like this Ning itself.

I would guess at this juncture you may not have a lot of time left in the school year and grade 7 kids skill sets can vary widely. So if I had to recommend I'd say go for the wiki option. You can have kids sign-up and create a site in minutes, what's more they can interact with you and one another by inviting each other to "join" thier wiki network so it's a good community builder as well. There's a few choices for these but I've had good luck with wetpaint.com which offers free sites and even removes all the advertising from educational related wikis.

If you'd like to see some of what I've done with kids using wikis in the last two years feel free to go to here You may also want to take look at the eportfolios i had kids create with google sites, their blogs and finally, sites i had kids create using html and some light web editors at: iisstudents.net a site dedicated exclusively for web design and hosting of their work --if it appears a little dated it's because I'm in the process of updating it just now!

This all may seem like a lot of work but remember it was done over the course of two school years... Hope it helps, best ~Sean

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