Have Your Students Create Websites

Weebly for Education is a great online tool, which you can use to allow your students to create websites about any topic they've been researching.  Much like Bit Strips, Weebly for Education allows teachers to create student accounts and manage permission levels.  Students do not require an email address, and do not have to create their own accounts.

Once you have created student accounts (a 2 minute task for a class of 25) and provided your students with their login information, students can access their account at http://students.weebly.com/.  Here, students can create visually appealing websites in an extremely easy to use, drag and drop interface.  Students can add up to 5 pages on their website (unlimited pages if you upgrade to Weebly Pro), upload pictures and files, embed flash video files, and more!

Have students demonstrate their learning by creating and publishing their own website using Weebly!

Primary Story Writing With Storybird!

Storybird is another great online application that has a teacher dashboard that allows teachers to create a class and monitor student accounts in a similar way to BitStrips and KidBlog.

Storybird allows children to select from preset art libraries and write stories to to match the illustrations.  The finished "storybirds" are beautiful picture book versions of the students' original stories that can be read online in an engaging full screen book format.  Students can also invite classmates as collaborators on their stories, and read the published stories of their classmates.

Your primary students will love creating stories in this engaging online format.  Get started here by creating a teacher account and adding students.