Web Design using Weebly

Professional Development
Title of Unit Curriculum Area Developed By Web Design using Weebly Professional Development Janet Leahr Grade Level Time Frame K-5 Teachers 50 minutes per session

Identify Desired Results (Stage 1) Content Standards

NETS-T 5. Engage in Professional Growth and Leadership Teachers continuously improve their professional practice, model lifelong learning, and exhibit leadership in their school and professional community by promoting and demonstrating the effective use of digital tools and resources.

Understandings
Overarching Understanding Teachers will understand that promoting and demonstrating the effective use of digital tools and resources will -Improve professional practice -Model lifelong learning -Exhibit Leadership Related Misconceptions Students and parents dont visit websites for information Parents prefer emails and handouts for information and updates Creating a website is a waste of valuable planning time

Essential Questions
Overarching -How will designing a web page enhance teaching? -What are the key skills needed to create a website? Topical -Who is the target audience of this website? -What are the schoolwide universal components needed for successful creation of this website?

Knowledge
Students will know -Who the target audience is for the website -What the school-wide components to include for successful creation of this website - The importance of communication through digital means - How web resources can enhance the educational experience for students

Skills
Students will be able to - Access the Weebly--WCPS staff page - Log into --their teacher ID and password - Name their page - Utilize Tabs for (design, pages, etc.) - Drag elements to their page (buttons, documents, slideshow, etc.) - Link to their Google Calendar - Access to digital pictures

Assessment Evidence (Stage 2) Performance Task Description

Goal In a 50 minute session, teachers will create the basic template of a class website using the

Role Audience Situation Product/Performance

Standards

Weebly web creation tools. The role of the performance tasks is to allow teachers the opportunity to participate in hands on training and after viewing the modeling of a skill, teachers will practice that skill during the class session. K-5 teachers participating in a professional development learning activity Teachers will rotate in small groups during their planning block into the media center for hands on training for the Weebly web design tools. The final product will be an accessible web page template with unpopulated tabs representing future content. NETS-T 5. Engage in Professional Growth and Leadership Teachers continuously improve their professional practice, model lifelong learning, and exhibit leadership in their school and professional community by promoting and demonstrating the effective use of digital tools and resources.

Other Evidence
Teachers will complete a post assessment questionnaire. Observation of teachers performance, and questions during the session.

Learning Plan (Stage 3)

Where are your students headed? Where have they been? How will you make sure the students know where they are going? How will you hook students at the beginning of the unit? What events will help students experience and explore the big idea and questions in the unit? How will you equip them with needed skills and knowledge? How will you cause students to reflect and rethink? How will you guide them in rehearsing, revising, and refining their work? How will you help students to exhibit and self-evaluate their growing skills, knowledge, and understanding throughout the unit? How will you tailor and otherwise personalize the learning plan to optimize the engagement and effectiveness of ALL students, without compromising the goals of the unit? How will you organize and sequence the learning activities to optimize the engagement and achievement of ALL students? Participating teachers have a broad range of technical skill levels, from novice to more technologically advanced. Some will have experience with developing wikis, blogs, and web pages. Others will not. Show the Weebly promo video. Through a brief discussion teachers will explore the essential question. Through modeling and hands on practice, teachers will build a web site. After each modeled segment teachers will be charged with creating that portion of the web site. This activity will allow teachers to rehearse, revise, and refine their learning. Teachers will be encouraged to ask questions as they are using the tool. Teachers will save/publish each page and review it on line. Teachers will be encouraged to write questions down to ask later. -In addition to hands on training, teachers will have access to a customized tutorial that will review all of the skills learned in class. - Advanced teachers will have the opportunity to explore advanced features such as creating a blolg on the website, inserting embed codes, and social networking options. Learning Activities (Model/Practice) Module 1 -Access the Weebly--WCPS staff page -Log into teacher ID and password -Name their page Module 2 -Utilize Tabs -Design -Themes

-Color Schemes -Fonts -Build -Basics -Structure -Social Media - Drag elements to page (buttons, documents, slideshow, etc.) - Link to Google Calendar - Access to digital pictures -Pages -Add a page -Page Layout -Page Hierarchy Module 3 -Settings -Site Address -Site Title -Facebook Sharing Module 4 -Advanced tools - Embed Codes - Blogs - Social Networking Links From: Wiggins, Grant and J. Mc Tighe. (1998). Understanding by Design, Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development ISBN # 0-87120-313-8 (ppk)