DEVELOP YOUR OWN LAGAN WEBSITE

89% WE have to think the way THEY think  89% of young people accessed the internet on mobile devices in The use of Tablets is also soaring. New technologies are revolutionising the way we access and learn information. WE have to think the way THEY think. We have to Empathise to Educate.  A website can make your subject instantly accessible to all your students 24/7 through a medium they love and understand  You can upload movies, pictures, audio files, You tube clips, class photos, word, excel, publisher documents, Power Points etc ..  This should be the end to missed lessons (and their excuses)  Class homework’s uploaded easily to your and marked  Clips stream from Youtube on to your website for class lessons (without DVD players)  Active careers information with links to university courses.  Parental friendly and has been very well accepted. Parents can look over and share in their child’s learning  Update information in seconds and add relevant articles and web links. This is great for A-Level subjects  Finally your students can easily create their own websites using this. This can make highly effective and creative lessons for them and provide a new technical skill to show off and add to CV’s. Design YOUR website for what YOU want… and make it work for you.

Password: lagan1981 Password: lagan Password: lagan1981

GO TO: CHOOSE SOME LOGOS PUT IN SOME TEXT FOR YOUR WEBSITE RIGHT CLICK ON IT AND SAVE IN YOUR DOCUMENTS USE GOOGLE TRY TO QUICKLY SAVE SOME SUBJECT SPECIFIC IMAGES TOO – ABOUT 4

Training Scenario: For this Session try to work individually. For this Session try to work individually. You are going to create your own school department web You are going to create your own school department web site, designed to promote your subject. site, designed to promote your subject. Your site will include a number of advanced features. Your site will include a number of advanced features.

WRITE IN:  A USERNAME  A PASSWORD  Your School  Accept  Sign up Fill in the details here School district is not needed.

Click CREATE WEBSITE

This section allows you to choose a site style and structure to suit you. (Have a quick look through) For today just choose this one… You can change it later

Choose your web address Important: Choose Sub domain of Weebly —the others are charged (approx £30 a year for.com site)

Just click on this section and Write what you want This page is going to be your ‘shop window’ You can edit this image and add your own images Just click EDIT IMAGE

Editing the Title page image To Edit just Click Add Image—and choose images from your Pictures (Try to build up a good stock of photos to use) Try Coolpix.com for Great titles!

Other features  You can Add Images to your title screen top panel  You can also add a Title with add Text  Background allows you to add colour backgrounds to this panel

YOUR TOOLBAR This little section at the side of your page is HOW you construct your website It is full of TOOLS to help you add what you want It is simply DRAG AND DROP You decide which ELEMENT you want and drag it on to the screen. The thin blue line shows you where your element will go when you unclick.

This mini toolbar allows you to  Make the letters Bold  Italic  Underline  Increase or Decrease Font  Change Font Colour  Add hyperlink— (web address)

This mini toolbar allows you to  Make the letters Bold  Italic  Underline  Increase or Decrease Font  Change Font Colour  Add hyperlink— (web address)

This allows you to add an image of your choice which you have saved in your documents. You can amend the image in various ways too DRAG IT OUT AND CHOOSE AN IMAGE NOW You can manipulate your image in various ways when uploaded.  Edit Image allows you to add edges and recolour ; It also allows you to resize.  Click on Caption to add description  Place it where you want  GIVE IT A GO

 SLIDESHOWS are really useful to show a range of photos.  To add a number of photos click on the slideshow button and hold down control until you click all the photos you need. This will upload the full range selected.  Slideshow then automatically runs through them on your website.

You can add a web link or indeed a link to a file such as PowerPoint/ Word or Excel by dragging across a BUTTON Choose the BUTTON STYLE first Then click LINK ; Add the file or website address you want and click SAVE Add the Caption ON THE BUTTON— What it is (BBC web link for example)

This Element is really useful for helping you Divide up and structure the screen. You can add 2 or more columns and you can then add what you want in each GIVE IT A GO.

You can add Youtube to your site. This SHOULD be made available to teachers in Lagan and has been cleared It will allow you the ability to upload valuable clips on to your website You can then show these to your classes from your own website. Just go to You tube— Copy the URL (web address) of the clip you want and upload it in the link box shown here.

Adding a page is very important—otherwise you will only have a 1 page website!!:  Go to PAGES at the Top  Click ADD PAGE  Choose your Page layout  You can drag your new page where you want— This means you can make sub menus if you want  TRY PRACTICING THIS—Move the new page in slightly from Home to create a sub menu  Click SAVE AND EDIT to finish

 THE MOST IMPORTANT BUTTON IS PUBLISH!!  You can use this at any time as you are working on your website—It publishes your website live on to the web!  It may give you a choice of web address—make sure you choose the free one-