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Overview
Overview
With today's technology, an individual does not require extensive computer science knowledge to build a website. Using website building tools will be a successful asynchronies way of learning. Websites can be used as a way to combine all student resources and can be considered as a final submission for an online course.
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Great web building platform for team collaboration. With just a standard Google account, you can make as many Google Sites as you want for free. The new Google Sites uses your Google Drive account to store images and files you share on your site, so you can even store up to 15GB of files for your sites for free, shared with your other Google apps.
Pedagogical Uses
Pedagogical Uses
Students can collaborate with each other in building an online resource lab for future reference.
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Resources
Themes, Templates, Sites Pages & Page Design Layout, Embed Sections, Embed URL, Upload Files & Folders View, Material Design Layout, Live Collaborate Editing, WYSIWYG Drag & Drop, Google Drive Integration, Google Sites Help Center, New Google Sites Help & Updates and Google Sites Examples Community.
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Create easy visually appealing documents quickly. Can invite an entire class of students for free with a free educator license to use the product. If you register your class you have access to their most extensive version of user items.
Pedagogical Uses
Pedagogical Uses
Students and teachers can create online course, portfolio, websites and marketplace for their courses.
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Texts, graphics, fonts, colors, shapes, images, videos, themes, templates, shopping cart, social media integration, pages, blogs, contact forms and most importantly plugins. Here is a video that explains how to build a basic online course on wordpress.
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With Wix, small businesses and individuals are given the tools and capacity to build beautiful and professional-looking websites that do not hamper their creativity with coding expertise. Wix is a free service, but users can opt to improve their websites by subscribing to Wix’s premium plans, one of which is devoted exclusively to eCommerce providers.
Pedagogical Uses
Pedagogical Uses
Young student entrepreneurs can use this platform as a hub for their customers and sell their products.
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Intuitive Website Builder, 100s of Designer-Made Templates, Customizable Designs, Free and Reliable Hosting, Optimized Mobile View, One-Pagers, Drag n’ Drop Website Editor, Image Editor, Text Editor & Free Fonts, Add and Organize Pages, HTML Embed Code, Page Protection, One URL for website & mobile site, Easy-to-add blog, Facebook comments, Social Feed, Automatic blog styling, Social Buttons (Google+, Facebook, Twitter & Pinterest), Wix App Market, Online Store, Email Marketing, Display Events, Live Chat, Multiple Payment Methods, Contact Manager, Personalized Google Mailbox, Financial Tools, Marketing Tools, Communication Tools and Site Analytics – Google Analytics. Below is an example for an class assignment using wix put together by a music instructor for high school students.
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Using a drag-and-drop interface, Weebly allows its users direct and detailed control over their website without requiring knowledge of coding or web-design. Weebly provides the domain, all the tools and over 100 optional templates to choose from. Weebly websites are completely customizable with HTML/CSS code and the editor allows users to create a webpage exactly as desired.
Pedagogical Uses
Pedagogical Uses
Students can create online portfolio, websites and marketplace for their courses.
Resources
Resources
Blogging, Online photo gallery creation, Video & audio players, Form builder, Integrated shopping cart & secure checkout, Free blog templates with sharing features, Text editing, Image editing, Customizable templates, Landing page templates, Photo albums, Built-in database, Activity dashboard, Third party integration, Content management and more.
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