Real-Teacher ReasoningNow more than ever, teachers need to be able to showcase their abilities and share information digitally. Some ways that these things are accomplished are: creating a website for their classroom; communicating with parents via email or social media; and, developing an online portfolio to showcase their skills to prospective employers. For this assignment you will create a website using Weebly that will serve as both a digital portfolio for the assignments created in this class, and a professional website to display your resume, teacher work samples, and contact information.
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Each Digital Portfolio could include the following pages:
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Weebly - RecommendedWeebly is the software I use to host my website. It is easy to use and intuitive, and the free version produces genuinely useable hyperlinks. While I am well versed in Sites, I live on Weebly.com, and spend every spare minute there refining my digital workspace. I can easily afford to remove the "powered by Weebly" from the footer of my website but choose not to because I genuinely endorse their web-design software.
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Google Sites - GoodGoogle, which hosts 99.9% of my digital life, makes a perfectly good web-design software called Sites. (Make sure to choose "New" Sites, not "Classic," when starting off.) It is not my recommended software because the link to a free site ends up being something like: www.sites.google.com/125gFtybz/karpie. They're just incomprehensible and barring an existing hyperlink, or paying for a domain, they will never get an actual human to type them in. Also, the software limits font and color choices, and I find the software a little difficult to navigate when it comes to sections and columns. For avid Google users such as myself, the interface is familiar and comforting, but the weird discord between finding your site in "Sites" or "Drive," but never both, or either is off-putting as well for new users.
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