Digital Tool 4: Website

The World Wide Web has a vast and endless array of websites on any topic you could think of, plus more. It is the development of websites which have changed the teaching resources and activtities available dramatically and enabled information to be accessed at the click of a mouse. The difference between websites in comparison to blogs and wiki's is that the creator decides what information gets published, the content and the structure without giving the public the access to change edit or modify information.

This makes a variety of activities available to the teacher and the class as resources can be downloaded, students can research, interactive activities can be incorporated and students gain skills in surfing the web which are vital in the twenty-first century.

For this activity Weebly was used to create a website with the URL, http://nicolekling.weebly.com/. This site enables users to create their own website, editing the layout and structure of the page, the ability to edit and add content and also music, PowerPoints and movies. This is a user-friendly website which could be incorporated in the classroom for students to provide an ICT based pedagogical component.