21st Century School Teacher

I just started putting together my new website for my classroom.  I haven't gotten too far, but I thought I'd add a post here to let you know where you can build a free website, too.  I use Weebly--it's very intuitive, and you can easily upgrade to a web domain that you choose.  Others?

Snap Pages

Yola

Webs

Web Node

Sauropol

Hipero

 

Common Craft's most recent videos...

• Twitter Search in Plain English
• Preparing an Emergency Kit in Plain English
• World Wide Web in Plain English

An interesting application--Glogster--like a blog, but less words and more pictures...  A teacher might organize a variety of assignments from a unit of instruction--or depending on the age of your students, you students could create their own glogs around an assignment or unit.

PikiWiki is a wiki website that is more oriented to multimedia and to drag-and-drop editing. This is a system which younger students can use, and it's free...

Couldn't resist this one... too cute...

Almost unbelievable... I'm going back to work. *big grin*  When we made this unexpected move to the desert, we thought I'd being staying home with Kate for 2 years--not so.  Kate is ready for preschool (big time), and I'm more than ready to be back in the classroom--can't wait!  I'm a little nervous because I taught in the same classroom in a great school for the first part of my career--I'm not sure what to expect in this new school in a somewhat rural community.  I'll keep you posted--school starts in early August!

A new websites to check out... Prezi.  I'm always looking for new ways to present data--this one looks interesting and new, and there is a free version (gotta love free!)