I have been using blogspot.com as a teaching tool in my classroom for years, most recently with rbceramics.blogspot.com and rbvisualarts.blogspot.com. Blogs and websites serve as a means to store and access links and lessons from any computer with the internet. It also enables students to view these resources, examples, and lesson plans from their home computers. The silver lining is that the sequence of lessons that evolve on my websites become a visual organizer for each class curriculum.
Upon exploring Weebly and Yola, I am all the more familiar with different avenues to build websites for educational and artistic purposes. Through experience, I am far more comfortable with the technical capacities of Blogspot, but weebly looks to be a clean and user friendly host as well. I look forward to using the Weebly site I built, www.rbdesignbasics.com, with our student artists to work more independently to learn about and apply art compositional skills.
