Thing #7

Hands-On Activity

I already have a Moodle site for the courses I teach. I created a blog last year for the 23 Things course I took, one for this course, and a family blog. So, I thought I would try to create a Weebly. I really kind of liked it, and I might think about doing something like this in the future with my classes. Sort of combine the website and Moodle content. I really like Moodle, but there are some definite limitations to Moodle.

The Weebly I created was a personal/family one: Our Family Fun Times. One thing that I probably realized before, but was made even more aware of was the need to have some sort of organizational strategy in mind before creating pages. As I was creating it, I was thinking about ways I could organize a site that I might create for my students. I like the idea that a webpage (like the one created by Weebly) is a lot more visual than Moodle. Plus, students could just click to get to the particular page for the unit/activity instead of scrolling down to just find links to documents and such. Overall, much more visually appealing.