 Hi, this is Valerie Burton on Twitter. I miss B is online and This presentation is going to talk about ways to show off your work online and create e-portfolios using Weebly It was done for the K-12 online 2012 conference Learn share and remix is this year's theme So why e-portfolios? e-portfolios allow you to create and maintain a living resume and you can use it to showcase and store examples of achievements accomplishments work that you do and You can create videos and share them with recruiters friends family Why we bleat it's free and easy and it allows you to house lots of different resources You just go to we bleat calm put in your name Put in your email address and put in your password For those of you who are teachers creating sites for younger kids You can use a gmail plus method, which means you put in your gmail account And then after your gmail name you put in plus and you can put the students in All correspondents will come to you, but they will have their own individual gmail account Faux gmail account to use to log in You name your site It gives you the option of indicating the the type of site and the category Once you select your categories and all the next screen that comes up tells you to choose your website domain Choose the first option because it's a free option And voila just like that click click click your work sites done Now what you need to do is you need to personalize it We bleeds behind the scenes dashboard is organized by tabs elements It allows you to add The elements you'd like on each page text pictures html code Box so that you can embed a widget design allows you to Choose the design and the theme what you want it to look like pages That tab allows you to add a variety of website pages or blog pages Editors If you need more than one person to work on the site you can add editors and settings Setting allows you to change the site title Determine whether or not the title is seen on your page Determine how you want the navigation pages to look So the debt the dashboards really easy to use And that's one of the great things about weebly These are some of the different elements you can choose from a photo gallery gallery slideshow feed reader google map Weebly allows you to have a lot of discretion about how you want your site to look They've got hundreds of themes that you can choose from Here's some of them The category is business colorful dark colors education general purpose light colors personal So choose the one that basically reflects your intentions and your personality Once you do that you can either have the social media icons on You can put a phone number on there for them to click It even allows you to change the fonts Okay, the color the size So you can really personalize it to your likes and wants Add as many pages or block pages as necessary Whatever your needs are some of the main categories to use for students my education my career my goals And on those pages you can have sub pages where you've got test scores transcripts College choices and majors For my career you can have some research information that you've done your resume What you put on the site is up to you Some of the pages that you can include you can have a learning log your coursework digital stories You can have a resume that lists your community service your jobs You can also have links to different websites. You can have photos It's up to you how you cater your site So here's an example of a template I gave to my kids for the english one class They had a main page home and in several sub pages short stories fictions poetry drama epic They had a main page who I am and several sub pages an average day things I like and so on Here's what that looks like Sarah sites She's one of my freshman english students from last year and on the cover. She's got an autobiographical wordle Hello kitty a favorite of hers And the some of the units we had in the class short stories On that page. She's got foe twitter conversation foe twitter profile She's analyzed several different stories She's got a photo movie about one of the stories And here's a wordle from the story On nonfiction we really allows you to embed videos So we have here an analysis. She did of a ted talk She's got two vocies for vocabulary words On her poetry page. She's got poetry that she's written Pages on your e-portfolio can be used to highlight extracurricular activities Or church activities awards certificates anything you think that might help out a recruiter Ensuring him that you're well-rounded So this is an example of a page done by a student of Mine he made podcasts for new orleans museum of art So he's got his particular header and it says look at my work for the new orleans museum of art We've got some pictures of the process He's got a couple of little blurbs about what he did in the process weekly allows you to put in Widgets and this is an example of a widget where it's the actual recording Of some of the material he did for the museum We've got a picture of the actual plate on the exhibit and it gives you a telephone number to call so Use weekly to help recruiter see that you're well-rounded. You've got some Multifaceted and you've got some wonderful things to highlight This is santana. He's one of my ninth grade students and he made an e-portfolio from me last year in english one So how did you feel about making the e-portfolio for my class? It was fun. It was wonderful because I learned how to use websites without being on facebook twitter and how to use extra stuff To build with did you have any opportunities to interact with any students from around the country? Yes, a better guy or not a student a guy from new york. He liked in my page Okay, and didn't he mention you in a tweet or he gave you a shout out or something? He shouted me out on twitter and all the kids was jealous All the kids in my class were jealous. Yes, okay I liked your site because it's unique and it shows your personality um, did you take a lot of time and planning the Material that you put on it. Yeah, because I want to mine before y'all because I want to mine to be different I put my own pictures and everything on them. They never you have on yours. You have a power point You have a couple of photo movies Um, you've got some poetry. You've got some essays. You can use Weebly in the classroom You can use it for a classroom website for classroom news You can also use it for student participation It's a way for you to be able to publish their information online They can use it for student portfolios exam review Pure editing you can have vocabulary lists or share notes You can also use it for community outreach You can have it as a resource for a school tour You can have a compilation of recipes for a recipe book You can have community frequently asked questions or you can merely share achievements of the students in your class You can also use it to house resources and have virtual field trips Have online textbooks or online presentations Use it as a glossary Weebly affords you the opportunity to do a variety of different things online for your classroom Here is my personal site developed to share resources and information with my pln I've got several pages that are linked up on it Linked up to it rather on this first page. I've got a video A little word of picture Um Weebly allows me to put a mini resume Online I've got information about Some of the presentations that I've done and the format I used for this is Not a regular page This format is a blog page And I use that because it gives me individual Different posts That I liked better Than the setup on the regular web page So weebly can allow you to link outside links as well As a tab on your site um You can embed a variety of Items So here's another weebly I have done for um as a as a guide for my english kids So that they can see what their site should look like. So this is my sample site And on there I generally put a lot of different Items so that they can see Some of the choices that they have um I've got videos pictures Podcasts Weebly just gives you an opportunity to really showcase A variety of different things There are many reasons why I love weebly and use it often The first Weebly's free The free account allows you to have freedom in the creation of your site so that you can put the elements on it that are of interest to you Weebly's easy The pages are set up so that all you have to do is drag and drop elements onto the page Weebly supports many media types It's easy for you to put the pictures and videos and widgets On the on your weebly site Just to prove a point. I'm going to quickly create a site. So I put my name email address password I need to prove that I am a human Hopefully I am Now I need to name my site and I'll call this test site 4k 12 I can make it either personal business If it's business, they're going to ask what type of business I'm in Group organization same thing. They want to know what type Education They have a category that you pick Wedding portfolio Or other I'm going to choose portfolio just because continue It allows you to I'm sorry spend money creating and registering your own domain That's not what we want to do right now. So we're going to stick to the sub domain, which is the first one and it's free Be sure to point that out if you're doing this with kids Okay, this site. All right, so It's telling me that the name I chose is not available to use another one So I did My site's created just that quickly I always like to personalize it first So I'm going to get rid of the picture that's there now And I'm going to add an image. They have stock images. I can either add one for my computer Or I can use one of theirs And I'm going to look for shoes I can either choose a professional picture Which is something I have to pay for Or I can choose one of their free Photos I'm going to choose this one. I can then size it and put it to The way I want If I'm good with that Now when I save it, I can save it as the default header Which means it'll be on all my pages I can save it only for this page or selected pages I'm going to save it only for this page All right, so my elements I've decided to drag and drop down a box Title and text so title is going to give me bold print Test If I could spell sorry And I put in my message See how easy This was So I've got one page done already On my site I'm going to add another page Add page. I'm going to call this page to I can add a blog And once I'm done with that I save it So I've saved my two pages And I got a message. It says nice job. Click publish when you want to publish or update your site So the only way your site becomes live is when you actually publish it So here are the pages I have you can't really see what the site looks like until you click publish And that allows you to Make it live And you can see what it's going to look like to the public. So just now I've decided that I'm going to add Two pictures I added multiple columns pull down two picture boxes to add a picture just click upload from Computer So I've just quickly uploaded to Pictures side by side in this column. I can adjust the size of the column if I'd like So pages are added Just that quickly and to stagger them All you do is pull them over so that they're staggered these will be sub pages for this one Click publish The first time you click publish It's going to confirm whether or not you want the subdomain Or you want to register a new domain. So again, I still want the subdomain I click continue. I have the option right now to share it on facebook share it on twitter Again, it's offering me the opportunity to go ahead and Make this my domain so again remind the kids not to click it They'll know when they make a mistake because it pops up and asks them for $50 So here's my site And here are my sub pages So this is what it looks like live here's the The post I did Test see how easy this was I dropped in two pictures Now I only added that um picture with the shoes on it to the home page So everything else Is going to look like the default setting Difference between the home page and the blog page I've got information on the sidebar here for categories and archives for the blog Okay, so remember I added one page and I added a couple of blog pages So in a little under five minutes, I had an opportunity to create a site See how easy that was