Online+Apps-Website+Design

For this module, check out the lists of online applications I've put together. Act as a critic and evaluate at least four online applications across the different lists. Try the sites out. Put them through the ropes. Are they easy to use? Would your students be able use them? Write an evaluation for each of the site you check out. Also, explain how you could use the application in YOUR class. Note: If another person has evaluated one of the applications already, you can build off their evaluations. I'd like to have the whole list of links evaluated though. Each evaluation you write should **be about 150 words in length.**


 * Note: All of these sites are (or were) FREE. If you come across a site that is no longer FREE, don't review it. For this assignment, I want us to examine only those tools that are freely available to our classrooms! Also, be sure to put your name with your posts. **

[|Roxer:] [|Jimdo] [|SynthaSite] [|Google Sites] [|Weebly] JHeffner- Weebly is a website creating site, but you do have to log on with you email, password. I like Weebly because it looks like an actual website. You can watch a video at the beginning to help guide you through a website setup. You can set up different pages and add photos, links, and videos. Everything is on the left and you just have to click the item you want to add and drag it to the space on the right. It is fairly easy and simple to use, but you don't get to have freedom of choosing any layout on the page you want. You are limited in changing the design. There are templates to use when creating a pages background. Weebly allows you to link a Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, or Email to the website. I enjoyed addding photos and making the design look pretty. I feel that the links are easy to see at the top of the page and it is easy to go to the different pages and edit each of them. Downloading files was simple as well as inserting video. This is a site I would like to try to create a webpage for my new classes I am teaching. photoshopwithheffner.weebly.com [|Sauropol] [|DoodleKit] JHeffner- Doodlekit is a website creating site, you have to log on with name, email, password. You can change the templates and there are many pages of templates available. Once you have chosen a template, you can use the Red buttons (most places you can edit, add photo, trash, or move text up/down) found around the screen to do any editing to that part of the website. They already have names of pages, photos and words there so you can see the layout. All you have to do is click on a red button to edit the titles, paragraphs or photos. I did find it took time to upload and insert pictures, but it was not difficult to do. You can also link to Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Google, and Pinterest. If you click on Admin Tools at the top of the page, it takes you to a different view of the website to edit. This is where you add more pages sidebars, layout, fonts, and upload pictures. I prefered just to be on the home screen and do my main editing to the website. I think there is a good possibility I would use this in my classes when I have students create website or if I want to create a website for my classes. I did not find it took difficult to use and looks like a website with easy to follow links to different pages in the site. [|SnapPages] [|Comfy Pages] [|Spaaze] [|Lifeyo]
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