Today fourth grade students in Ms. Hall’s class at Laburnum Elementary created websites for each other (and anyone else) to help them review for upcoming tests. First I told them to pick a topic that they know a lot about. It could be from Math, Science, or Social Studies. Next we went to CheckThis which is a site I have often used with students to create webpages since it doesn’t require a login. I showed them how to type a title, subtitle (name), and their information. It’s important to finish the writing part first before going onto the fun stuff because otherwise students get too distracted. Next we did a Google image search to find a relevant picture and added the link to their webpage. I also showed them how to add a poll. We wanted to create these sites for review so we discussed what makes a good question. After they published their pages, I would usually go around and write down the last 4 digits of their websites (since the first part is the same for all of them) and add it to a GoogleDoc for sharing, but I didn’t have much time today, so I made a quick Google form that you can see here, and asked the students to enter the last 4 digits themselves. Then I published the results as a webpage with all the links. You can see it by clicking here. Try visiting a couple of sites and answering their poll questions. One last thing, in trying to take a screenshot of one of the sites for the sample picture on this post, I found it difficult to capture the whole site since it wouldn’t fit on my screen. Then I discovered a cool webtool called Site2Pic that did the trick!
