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Alternatives to Web Sites

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Web Page Design with Web 2.0 Tools

Forget FrontPage! Forget Dreamweaver! These technical solutions for developing web pages are being rapidly replaced with a plethora of creative Web 2.0 tools available right on the internet. Wikis, blogs, and sites are some of the new tools that not only help you develop web pages, they encourage collaboration and avoid the need to have highly technical knowledge. With these tools you and your students can easily embed audio and video resources to make your web site a learning tool as well as a resource. Examples and resources on our wiki pages: Wikis   Wikis And Blogs    Blogs  Google Sites

 

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Sidebar

Simultaneos multiple user access

Locks

Widget/Gadget

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Embed

Upload

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Professional tools have a very steep learning curve and may be best suited to individuals who enjoy graphic design and posess technical knowledge. Such tools are versatile and full featured as well as costly.

 

Having some other person create your web site is often the best alternative for individuals who need a web site but have little time or inclination to create and maintain one. This can be a very costly alternative since you will likely pay for every update and special request. When your webmaster leaves sites may be difficult to keep up to date.

 

Simple tools like Wikis, Blogs, and Sites offer convenient, low cost, and easy to use tools for creating and maintaining web pages, yet may not have the versatility or depth that professional tools offer. Wikis and Sites can have the added advantage that many people can come together to collaborate on the creation and maintenance of a single web site or page. Blogs can be a good alternative for the teacher who wishes to keep current content at the top of the page.

 

The last category, Controlled sites, offer the least flexibility for the creator, but focus the most on content. Course creation tools like Moodle and Blackboard create a predesigned web site that just needs content to make it work. SharePoint provides a framework around content with preset themes and required page elements. School districts use content management systems to 'brand' their web sites.

 

Compare and Contrast Web Sites, Wikis, Blogs, and Google Sites

 

Features
Web Site
Wikis Blogs Google Sites
Versatile - can use many web technologies. Highly No No Somewhat
Feature rich Highly No No Somewhat
Ease of Use - a caveman can do it. No Yes Yes Yes...
WSIWYG Editor Yes Yes Yes Yes
Source Code Editor Yes sort of soft of sort of
Content can exist on both computer and internet Yes No No No
Easily open to collaboration No Yes No Yes
Can embed editable documents No No No Yes
Can embed forms to collect data Yes No No Yes
Chronological listing of postings No No Yes Possibly
Can easily contain calendar items No No No

Yes

Automatically creates a history and allows backtracking No Yes Yes Yes
Additional features Free $ $ N/A
RSS feed to notify users of changes Maybe Yes Yes Yes
Backups Possible $ $ No
Widgets/Gadgets Maybe Yes No Yes!

 

Sample Google Sites

 

Sample School Wikis

 

Sample School Blogs

 

 

 

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