Classroom news
- Classroom FAQ: Make it a class project to create an FAQ for your classroom that will help new students and those that will come in years later.
- Classroom scrapbook: Share news, photos, and current achievements in your classroom on a website.
- Calendar: Create a calendar on the wiki and encourage students to add their own personally important dates.
- Classroom newspaper: Create your own news outlet on a website.
- Hall of fame: Highlight students’ exceptional achievements on the website.
- Classroom policies: Encourage students to draft rules and policies for the classroom.
Student Participation
- Exam review: Encourage students to share review notes and other helpful pieces of information on your classroom’s website.
- Peer review: Allow students to draft their papers on their website, then ask other students to comment it.
- Student portfolios: Have students create an ePortfolio that allows them to display and discuss their work.
- Peer editing: Ask students to edit each others’ work for spelling, grammar, and facts based on a style guide or rules you’ve defined.
- Vocabulary lists: Encourage students to submit words that they had trouble with, along with a dictionary entry.
- Get feedback: Ask students to post comments on website pages.
- Share notes: Let your students share their collective information so that everyone gets a better understanding of the subject.
Community Outreach
- School tour: Get your class to take photos of your school and write about their favorite spots on the website, then share it with the rest of your school and your local community.
- Recipe book: Ask students to bring in their favorite recipes from home, then share them with parents and the rest of the community.
- International sharing: Collaborate with a class from another country and share information about your culture, or even a day in the life of a typical student.
- Local history: Document historical buildings, events, and more from our community. You can ask students to perform interviews, and encourage parents and other adults to contribute their knowledge in the website.
- Community FAQ: Ask students to create an FAQ for their community, then pass it on to your next group of students.
- Community nature guide: Have your students collect highlights of plants and animals in your community.
- Share achievements: Post Student of the Week or SuperStars and let parents see what their children have accomplished.
Resource collections
- Virtual field trips: Have your students research far away places they would like to go on a field trip, and get them to share images and information about the location.
- Create presentations: Instead of using traditional presentation software, put presentations on the Weebly.
- Write an Online Textbook: Make it a class project to collaboratively write a reference book that others can use.
- Study guides: Ask students to create study guides for a specific part of the unit you’re studying.
- Readers’ guides: Have your students create readers’ guides to share their favorite and most important parts of works you’ve read in class.
- Solving a Problem Site: Post difficult math problems, such as calculus, so that the class can collaboratively solve them.
- Glossary: Get your class to create a glossary of terms they use and learn about in new units, adding definitions and images.
- Class encyclopedia: Ask your class to create an "encyclopedia" on a topic, adding useful information that can be built upon through the years.
- Create exploratory projects: If you’re teaching a new subject, ask your students to collect and share information in the website so that you can learn together.