Spice+Up+your+Website

**Spice Up Your Website **

 media type="custom" key="4380737"  Student work List of important dates Classroom news About the Teacher Homework page Classroom Management Plan Special Schedule Links for classroom lessons and resources for home use Files to be downloaded (parental resources, project requirements, etc) Slide Shows(password protected)
 * Screencast Tutorial about embedding on your webpage: **
 *  Some things you could add to your website: **

 *Turn off the pages you are not using.*

 Blogs These can be used by students ad teachers. Teachers may share information or students may be required to post responses to questions, book review, etc.

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 Book List Shelfari is a website that allows you to "build" a bookshelf and display it to show books you have read or books you may want to recommend for your students. media type="custom" key="4306837"

 Voki
 * leave a message for parents and students about what they can find and use on your page
 * leave a message about upcoming events
 * tell about what has happened in your class
 * tell about what the students are learning

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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;"> AudioPal: [] You can leave messages on your webpages with information, news, instructions for a project, etc. There is no picture included. media type="custom" key="4380251"

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;"> Slide Shows: These can be used to show what is happening in your class. You do need permission to put students' pictures on your website, even if they are password protected. I have a permission slip you can send home and you can give the password to your students/parents.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;"> Examples: [] []
 * The bottom section does not require a password, so you can see what it looks like.
 * Password protected

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;"> Homework Page Chart: This is done by expanding the toolbar and choosing to add a table. Then you can click in a box and add an image. There is a nice gallery of images available. Boxes will space out on their own as you add pictures/text.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;"> Examples: []

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;"> Surveys These can be posted to gather information about just about anything or to take a poll of favorites, etc. Students, teachers or the general public could be involved. You could also make your page that contains a survey/poll private by setting it as password protected.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;"> Examples: [] [] []

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;"> Glogster You can give your website a "scrapbook" look by making a Glogster and embedding on your site.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;"> Examples: [] []

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;"> Wordles Use a Wordle to tell about you, your classroom, curriculum or the individual students in you class.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;"> Examples: [] []

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;"> Delicious Tag Cloud You can put your cloud on your website and have your students find sites by clicking on the tags. Examples: [] [] []

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;"> Widgets: Go here to look for widgets: []

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;"> [|Google Translator Widget] This is just a screen shot of it: See it in action here: []

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;"> [|Scientific Calculator] media type="custom" key="4306255"

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;"> [|This Day in History] media type="custom" key="4306239" Are U U.S.A. Smart? media type="custom" key="4307195"

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;"> [|Create Your Own Artwork] media type="custom" key="4374179"

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;"> [|Virtual Drums] media type="custom" key="4379999" [|Piano] media type="custom" key="4380113"

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;"> Photosnack-pictures of your classroom?