I was so excited to see the disposable web pages. There are several different times I have students make PowerPoint's or reports in some way and I've been wanting to use web pages instead as a new venue. I thought specifically that in my Politics of Persuasion unit I have the students take a colonists newsletter and have them rewrite it in the British point of view. I think it would be great if they did a "Wonder if they had the Web in 1776?" and have them do their revised articles as a web page. The pluses of the disposable web pages are that it is EASY to use and would be easy to give a quick tutorial to 5th graders on how to use it. I also liked that they could only put in 5 pictures and limited font choices so they don't get bogged down with the "pretty" stuff and get to the meat of it. Two downsides: one is when I bookmarked my site and then bring it up, it always splits the screen with another site, whether it be google or something else I had up. The other downside is the 90 day window. If I have them do a website earlier in the year then it doesn't save until May when I have my Enrichment Fair. Any one know how to fix my downsides?
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Did you see the little links at the bottom of the dis. web? I clicked on Reddit, there are some inapropriate materials
ReplyDeleteOuch! I didn't, thanks for letting me know. I haven't used it with kids yet. Whew!
ReplyDeleteHey seth:
ReplyDeleteI didn't see the link at the bottom that said Reddit. Is it when you are editing? What does it look like?
What if you use the iWeb tool for the kids to create the stuff. Can you then upload to these pages? I have not tried it....
ReplyDeleteAs for the materials at the bottom...I am sure that they are blocked by HCPSS filters if the whole site is actually available to us.
Wanna hear a confession? I've never tried iWeb. Do I fail automatically?
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