Create Your Own Website with Weebly

 Have you ever wanted to create your very own website, but fees and money have gotten in the way? Enter Weebly - a free website creator that allows the user to build their own domain with just a few clicks! To begin, all you have to do is go to Weebly.com and press the big blue button titled "Create Your Website." From there, you will be prompted to make an account with Square Inc. at no additional charge. This allows the user to have an account associated with the website that they are building. The visuals and instructions make it easy for the user to follow, and the process takes no more than a few minutes! Once your account is connected, you will be able to create your own website name. While the free version coerces you into using the domain weebly.com at the end, a multitude of other options is available for purchase such as .com, .org, and so forth! However, the entire process can be made free by using the weebly.com domain. Publishing, posting, and even selling on your Weebly website is also free of charge. This makes it so that small businesses, students, and just about anyone can have the opportunity to build a creative outlet that can be used for a copious number of aspects. Advertising products, learning benefits, and, like in our class, blogs! Currently, I am using Weebly for my Digital Citizenship project, and I have found it easily accessible to use and a great way to incorporate my thoughts. It elicits one's artistic side, for one Weebly website can look entirely different from another. It is user-oriented and relies solely on the user's preferences, style, and choices. This is ideal for both students and teachers to take advantage of in the classroom or school library. For instance, students can use Weebly for assignments, projects, or blogs, and teachers can utilize Weebly in a way that teaches the classroom through digital means. This can influence other forms of digital learning, like attaching educational games to the website! Children of all ages tend to love technology outside of the classroom, so integrating it into the classroom makes it a fun learning environment for both the students and teachers! Weebly does just this - it establishes learning opportunities for students in the sense that they can comprehend website building, technology integration, voicing their thoughts and opinions, and designing with their creative ability. Websites can be used for endless reasons, and making one in the classroom can inspire other ideas for students outside of the classroom like personal blogs. Weebly is an astonishing technological tool that takes digital learning to another level.