Wednesday, November 22, 2006
Need a Web Page? Some Free Online Page Building and Hosting Resources
I recently discovered that Google has webpages in beta. It's in the Google Labs section, not ready for prime time, but if you have a Google gmail account, you can start trying it out. I've started using it to see how it works. My page is here: http://teacherlynneb.googlepages.com . It's template driven.
Another site I started fooling around with is http://www.wikispaces.com . I may use this for publishing a webquest. It's worth exploring if you can use a wiki engine for your classes. My page is here, https://technoed.wikispaces.com/, but it's just holding a holding place right not. They have been offering ad-free wikis for teachers.
BTW, if you are loooking to create a webquest, http://www.webquest.org now has a creation and hosting site at http://webquest.org/questgarden/author. It's free at the moment, but they expect to charge a nominal fee in the future.
Most Internet surfers are aware of social networks, like myspace. com and such where they can build personal pages. Geocities has been around or for awhile http://www.geocities.com and is now a part of Yahoo's services. This is not a social network site, but has free and fee site hosting. Another site that offers free web page space and hosting is http://www.bravenet.net . You can use templates here, OR upload your own pages!! and they have lots of add-ons you can include in your pages.
Teachers should also see if using http://www.think.com , the Orcacle sponsored website, might work for them. Teachers can register classes and students can build 10-page websites. There are opportunities here for networking with students around the world in a much 'safer' environment than sconex or myspace.
Blogs can be worthwhile , too. This new version of blogger, now owned by Google, is one of the more popular blogging sites. What's most notably new here is access acontrol and comment moderation. Read all about it at http://help.blogger.com/bin/topic.py?topic=9084 .
For the very ambitious among us, www.moodle.org has a package for hosting online classes. It's open source, and you've got to use your own hosting service.
What websites do you know of that offer free (or VERY cheap) space generally, or for teachers specifically? Do they use templates or can you upload your own pages using FTP?
Another site I started fooling around with is http://www.wikispaces.com . I may use this for publishing a webquest. It's worth exploring if you can use a wiki engine for your classes. My page is here, https://technoed.wikispaces.com/, but it's just holding a holding place right not. They have been offering ad-free wikis for teachers.
BTW, if you are loooking to create a webquest, http://www.webquest.org now has a creation and hosting site at http://webquest.org/questgarden/author. It's free at the moment, but they expect to charge a nominal fee in the future.
Most Internet surfers are aware of social networks, like myspace. com and such where they can build personal pages. Geocities has been around or for awhile http://www.geocities.com and is now a part of Yahoo's services. This is not a social network site, but has free and fee site hosting. Another site that offers free web page space and hosting is http://www.bravenet.net . You can use templates here, OR upload your own pages!! and they have lots of add-ons you can include in your pages.
Teachers should also see if using http://www.think.com , the Orcacle sponsored website, might work for them. Teachers can register classes and students can build 10-page websites. There are opportunities here for networking with students around the world in a much 'safer' environment than sconex or myspace.
Blogs can be worthwhile , too. This new version of blogger, now owned by Google, is one of the more popular blogging sites. What's most notably new here is access acontrol and comment moderation. Read all about it at http://help.blogger.com/bin/topic.py?topic=9084 .
For the very ambitious among us, www.moodle.org has a package for hosting online classes. It's open source, and you've got to use your own hosting service.
What websites do you know of that offer free (or VERY cheap) space generally, or for teachers specifically? Do they use templates or can you upload your own pages using FTP?
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