Weebly e Portfolios Getting Started Tech Tuesday March

Weebly e. Portfolios: Getting Started Tech Tuesday March 15, 2016

Gauging my Audience How many of you are familiar with e. Portfolios? How many of you would describe yourselves as “tech savvy? ” How many of you have used Weebly or similar platforms to build websites?

Goals for Tech Tuesday Review e. Portfolio definition, signature assignment, models, and examples Consider the structure of your assignment based on what Weebly has to offer (pros, cons and templates) e. Portfolio as a work in progress Create an account in Weebly

e. Portfolio in a Nutshell Begins with a signature assignment based on Student Learning Outcomes Enables students to reflect on their learning in a particular course and to make connections with their learning in a larger context

Designing a Signature Assignment http: //teingle. wix. com/sdmceportfolios#!signatur eassignment/c 1 ger

e. Portfolio Models Salt Lake Community College: http: //www. slcc. edu/gened/eportfolio/ Pasadena City College: http: //demystifytheeportfolio. weebly. com/

e. Portfolio Examples Students http: //mckellseportfolio 117. weebly. com/ http: //moriahlglazier. weebly. com/ http: //briannaeng. weebly. com/ http: //shiftingminds. weebly. com/ Faculty http: //tiffanyingle. weebly. com/ http: //www. professorjanetmitchell. com/

Weebly Pros - Beginners 5 MB storage Easy to use platform with many templates and free access to non-copyrighted images Five free sites Set up pages from any page of e. Portfolio Hide site from search engines Revive deleted pages and sites with support

Weebly Pros - Advanced “Drag & drop” widgets (widget for: You. Tube, Facebook, Twitter, Linked. In, Flickr, Google+, Pinterest, Vimeo, etc. ) Public poll with Polldaddy widget, public forums, and public survey with on-page questions Create block quotes without change of fonts or styles Feed reader to stream other sites (news, blogs, posts, etc. )

Weebly Cons Does not pair well with Internet Explorer Can limit design freedom Some templates may force all CAPS Doesn’t password protect pages for free Limits storage space if you're using a lot of high resolution photos (to avoid this, consider Jimdo or Wix instead)

Hands on time… My Create http: //mathispersonalgr owth 110. weebly. com/ http: //www. weebly. com / e. Portfolio as a work in progress you’re account