Session #2 - A Website of Your Own

Listen to Nancy Caramanico / Techspiration Session #2 | Explore the largest community of artists, bands, podcasters and creators of music & audio.

Shownotes

Individual Websites for teachers, individuals

Mobile websites optimize view for mobile devices

Digital Footprint online sample -

http://christienken.com/   -  Seton Hall Professor

https://platformuniversity.com  - Platform University

Analytics

Assessing traffic to site, Assessing site needs - Google Analytics, Surveys

Websites including Blogs - Blogs are great for journaling, adding personality and authority

Getting started - Making your own site, sites for teachers

• Blogger

• Google Sites - Free

• Tumbler - Free or paid

• Edublogs - Yearly fee

• Teacherweb - Yearly fee

• Typepad - all cloud hosted, paid

• Squarespace

• Wikispaces

• Wordpress.com  - free

• Wordpress Classrooms

• Wordpress.org - - self hosted paid option, gives total control

Domains - Choosing A Domain Name

• Domain Name Defined - URL http://www.thefreedictionary.com/URL
• Purchase via Bluehost, Hover, Godaddy, etc…
• Choose a name
• Can be redirected to replace your free site name edublogs, etc

Examples - Teachers

Teacher Examples - Vicky Davis, BarbinNebraska, Barb Grade 3 Wiki, Mr. Meyer , Matt Gomez, Kleinspiration, Shannon Miller, PernillesRipp, Paul Solarz

Examples and Supporting Info

Platform Michael Hyatt - Platform University