Classroom Home Base Websites
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http://wfryer.me/homebase - our TodaysMeet
Session Description: Every classroom teacher and instructor needs a “home base” website* to share links, videos, announcements, and other resources online. A home base website answers the common question, “Where can I find this later?” It can also facilitate sharing and collaboration among teachers. Learn how to use Google Sites (free) to create a dynamic, media-rich “home base” website accessible from mobile devices as well as laptop/desktop computers. View examples of websites like these (here and here) currently used by classroom teachers. Learn to create a “web bookmark” to your classroom home base site on an iPad for quick student access. Explore strategies for sharing “curiosity links,” videos, lesson plans, calendars, and other kinds of media.
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Why a Home Base?
- Every student need to know (digitally speaking) where to start
- Sharing links: Saving Time
- Sharing Videos
- Communicating with Parents
- Sharing Lesson Ideas with Other Teachers
Basic Skills
- Create a new site
- Add text
- Add a link
- Insert an image
- Embed a Video
Examples: Google Sites
- Classroom website of grade 5 teacher Keri Smith: https://sites.google.com/a/yukonps.com/smith/
- Classroom website of grade 3-4 teacher Shelly Fryer: classroom.shellyfryer.com (@ptOKC - @sfryer)
- STEM Classroom website of Wesley Fryer: stem.wesfryer.com (@iesSTEM - @wfryer)
- Library of David Elementary
- Pre-AP Biology (Misty Williams, Yukon PS, Oklahoma)
- LOTS of classroom Google Sites (Diigo list) via @kylepace & his Google Sites workshop
Examples: WordPress
- Grade 4 Classroom - Western Academy of Beijing (via @Phillip_Cowell)
- Grade 5 Classroom: Math/Science class of Michelle Towles
Examples: Weebly
Examples: Other Platforms
- High School Chemistry (Jim Askew, Crescent PS, Oklahoma) - not really designed 'mobile friendly' but an incredible example of openly shared high school digital curriculum
Google Sites How To
- Google Sites Resources by EdTechTeam member Michael Wacker (@mwacker)
Also see my breakout session curriculum: Mobile Apps & Curriculum for Your Class
* Thanks to Maria Henderson for originally sharing the idea of calling a classroom website like those described here a "home base" website at the June 2011 TCEA Area 7 conference in White Oak, Texas.
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