website builder for grade 5s

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Permalink Reply by Liam O'Donnell on February 25, 2008 at 7:39pm

Thanks for those links indigo. I doubt the school has hosting. Must check with admins.

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Permalink Reply by Michael Staton on February 25, 2008 at 9:11pm

try www.weebly.com

that might do it.

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Permalink Reply by Kevin H. on February 26, 2008 at 4:07am

I've used Weebly and although the domain name will include Weebly in it, the program itself is pretty slick and easy to use.
Kevin

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Permalink Reply by Gary Miller on February 25, 2008 at 9:51pm

How about a wiki? We use wikispaces.com, easy to use and free. Let them know it is for education, and they take the advertisements off.

Gary

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Permalink Reply by Ben Grundy on February 26, 2008 at 3:20am

there are heaps of free website creators/hosts out there that are free and ad-free. This is one example http://www.webnode.com/en/ which i found on a great Web2.0 directory service - http://go2web20.net

Hope this helps

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Permalink Reply by Liam O'Donnell on February 26, 2008 at 4:58am

Thanks for these links everybody. This is exactly what I'm looking for. I think between them, my student will get her page online. Thanks again for the resources.

Liam

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Permalink Reply by Andrew Pass on February 26, 2008 at 2:54pm

Kathy,

I really like your question, "Why is a web page better than any other medium?"

While there are times when web pages can be very useful, I personally think that too many people use web pages for projects that would be better hosted on other kinds of tools.

Then again, I'm not sure if it's important for school children to think about the difference in these tools as long as they can use them to promote critical thinking about important ideas.

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Permalink Reply by Liam O'Donnell on March 2, 2008 at 11:46am

@ Kathy and Andrew - I totally agree that getting kids to think critically is a key part of education. The website my student wants to build ties into a social studies unit on the rights of the child and looking the way media sells to kids. Thanks to the advice in this thread, I've not got a web platform that she can use to explore these issues. Should be fun.

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Permalink Reply by Liam O'Donnell on March 2, 2008 at 8:34pm

Thanks for the website Shaun - it's a good one. I like the design your own ad campaign game and the fake banner ads - definitely shows kids how advertisers work. Another good resource I use is Media Madness, by Dominic Ali (http://www.kidscanpress.com/kidscanpress/KidsCanPress_3/KCP/f_home.htm) and Made You Look by Shari Graydon (http://206.186.83.77/catalog/catalog.aspx?Title=Made+You+Look) Both books come with lesson plans on their publishers' website and are worth checking out.

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Permalink Reply by Denis Decroq on September 15, 2009 at 1:35am

If your students only need a simple website with a Menu for a few pages, then I would like to recommend autoweb-creator.com online webpage creation because it is simple, quick and free.
It can also be used as a starting point to make more elaborated websites with static and dynamic pages such as whol...

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Permalink Reply by Jonathan Wylie on September 15, 2009 at 5:44am

A second vote for Weebly. I really like it. Easy to use, all drag and drop, and free hosting.

I have my blog with them, www.educationtechnologyblog.com , and my class site, www.mrwylie.com

Others she could try include, Snappages, yola, freewebs, webnode, jimdo...

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