This might be a helpful way of teaching parents about the Free Website Project. Here's the message that I sent to the store.
Book Store What a great idea! A facebook page for your store... i particularly like the employees Anson and Sarah and Ashlynn who are featured. I am a high school teacher and I want to train my studetns to have the smiles and online presence that you have. I've created a project that brings the FREE WEBSITE (digital portfolio) procedure from California to Florida. I will be in Melbourne either this weekend or next weekend.
Is it possible to drop by your store for two or three hours to set up a table to answer questions that parents might have about "how to sue websites to improve your child's education"?
It's a free program and I hope you will be the first place in Melbourne to support the process by allowing a display in your store for a few hours.
I give away cards that show the steps to making a free website using a gmail account. my phone is 954 6468246 and I hope we can connect.
[ 6 ] Perhaps you would like to learn how to make a free website using Google Sites TinyURL.com/sunportfolios5 <<< FREE EBOOK
Share this page with friends:
>>> TinyURL.com/FWPstart <<<
1. Every student gets a free website built on Google sites (using their gmail accounts).
2. Students put their best academic work on display.
3. Students can choose to put the site "open to the public" (and allow college admission officers to see their work) or "share with teachers and parents only."
4. The Common App (application form used by over 600 universities for college entrance) has a line called "please enter the link to your online portfolio." That's where this free website becomes useful.
5. The student's resume can be shown on the Free Website (as part of the student's career development efforts).
6. At SunEd High school, we ask students to learn to use Google Drive and Google Docs, so that students can submit materials to teachers online (we have saved LOTS of paper). The material on Google Drive is available for displaying on the "digital portfolio" (free website).
If you would like to have our free materials, please click below
Canva.com is the easy way to design posters and other artwork online.
Orders@fastprintz.com is where our school gets many of our jobs printed. Thanks to Craig, Jillian and Whitney for introducing us to Canva.com for designing the posters.
2. Bitcasa: stores up to 10 GB worth of free files.
3. Dropbox: 2 GB of free storage (or up to 18 GB if you refer a friend).
4. Evernote: free users can store up to 100,000 notes.
5. Google Drive: a free storage limit of up to 5 GB that’s shared between Google Drive and Google+ Photos.
6. iCloud: is just for iOS devices. It comes with 5 GB of free cloud storage. Bonus: the photos in your Photo Stream don’t count against your storage limit.
[ 6 ] Perhaps you would like to learn how to make a free website using Google Sites
TinyURL.com/sunDP5 <<< Free EBOOK with instructions about how to make a free website
I'm offering this "free website project" modeled on the HIGH TECH HIGH approach to make Digital Portfolios in California. Call +1 54) 646 8246 to get free over-the-phone tips.
How to create an album to share photos and videos -- you don't need Facebook -- You don't need a blog -- Use photos.google.com See the PLAYLIST of the Free Website Project TinyURL.com/freewebsiteplay Thank you for learning the steps to take to set up a free website. Here are some links to learn more about the project WHERE TO GET FREE HELP Integrate school and community (you don't want to warehouse kids away from the world) integrate head and hand, across income layers.
Tomas Jefferson: the purpose of public schools is to create a public. More about projects and how they fit with "free websites" High Tech High started as a school built around projects. It made sense to keep track of the results of the projects with portfolios... and paper files got messy, so why not put the projects on the Internet? The challenge for teachers in a non-project school is "how do we change the culture of a school?" We could try "top down" or "bottom up." Top down: Training for teachers (who are already pressed to include 12 hours of curriculum into 5 or 6 teaching hours each day). What kind of training about "building digital portfolios" would you give teachers?
Bottom up: Some students take the lead and other students copy. This involves virtually no input from the teachers. The Free Website Project evolved from the idea that "kids will find a way to do cool things" (Facebook, instagram and snapchat were not imposed top down on kids). How can we entice "early adopters" to start building websites? What percent of the student body will eventually adopt "free website" if 1% of the students are trained to make a free website? The Instagram argument Who taught teens to get onto snapchat, vine or instagram?
The argument in favor of the "bottom up"approach to introducing "free websites to students" is clear: 1. Schools might not have time in the day for training or funds for hiring trainers for staff 2. Many teachers don't choose to use projects and would prefer not to take times
If you would like to become a "student advisor" and support other students with your expertise, call (954) 646 8246. Ask for Steve McCrea. "I made something really cool and people came to see it." Mike Strong in a video at Teacher Channel
These are the typical sub-pages of a Free Website for showing your work: It's a DIGITAL PORTFOLIO
STEP 7: Connect the pages Highlight the word, click on the "CHAIN" icon (it is the LINK) and type the name of the link
Step 8: You can put the link on the bottom of each page, too This will give the viewer places to visit at the end of the page
Step 9: Under SOCIAL MEDIA, consider putting your POSITIVE photos on display. Why not create an account that shows the POSITIVE side of you?
STEP 10: PICTURES To add an image, click on INSERT
then click on IMAGE and find the image
Step 11: Share the link with friends Look at the UPPER RIGHT at the BLUE BUTTON "SHARE" -- you can let your teachers VIEW or even EDIT your web site
Type to invite a teacher to edit your site A teacher can add some comments, such as "Spell check!"
This is an option You could also let your parents view and perhaps even EDIT your page.
Step 12: Tell us about your free site. YOUR Site's LINK is found at the TOP of the page. Text the link to ManyPosters@gmail.com Send a text message to (954) 646 8246 More about the Free Website Project Who is Dr. Fischler and why is his input so helpful? TinyURL.com/Fischlermuseum tinyURL.com/FischlerEbook <<< his free ebook
See the interview starting around minute 3 of this video
Videos about High Tech High High Tech High "philosophy" High Tech High projects and books Interview with Larry Rosenstock, director of HTH "Oh, this is what adults do..." (minute 5:37)
This page is http://tiny.cc/freesitegoogle This page is also called TINY.cc/freesite11 Integrate school and community (you don't want to warehouse kids away from the world) integrate head and hand, across income layers.
Thomas Jefferson: the purpose of public schools is to create a public. More about projects and how they fit with "free websites" High Tech High started as a school built around projects. It made sense to keep track of the results of the projects with portfolios... and paper files got messy, so why not put the projects on the Internet? The challenge for teachers in a non-project school is "how do we change the culture of a school?" We could try "top down" or "bottom up." Top down: Training for teachers (who are already pressed to include 12 hours of curriculum into 5 or 6 teaching hours each day). What kind of training about "building digital portfolios" would you give teachers?
Bottom up: Some students take the lead and other students copy. This involves virtually no input from the teachers. The Free Website Project evolved from the idea that "kids will find a way to do cool things" (Facebook, instagram and snapchat were not imposed top down on kids). How can we entice "early adopters" to start building websites? What percent of the student body will eventually adopt "free website" if 1% of the students are trained to make a free website? The Instagram argument Who taught teens to get onto snapchat, vine or instagram?
The argument in favor of the "bottom up"approach to introducing "free websites to students" is clear: 1. Schools might not have time in the day for training or funds for hiring trainers for staff 2. Many teachers don't choose to use projects and would prefer not to take times
This might be a helpful way of teaching parents about the Free Website Project.
