Teacher needs a place to construct a website?

Question

I need to find a place to host a website that will allow me to be able to put 50-100 website links on it. I am a teacher and I need for my students to be able to access these. Free would be nice...no clue how to html

Answer 1

Hi!

I think your best bet would be to look into something like geocities.com.  But, your state may already have the resources you desire to compile this web site.  In New York State we have NYLearns.org.  Look into yahoo angelfire, etc.. but it would be best to check with your schools policies regarding blocking.  MySpace might be a great place to post IF it is not blocked.  The same for many other sites.  Also, what you post as a professional for your school, may be rightfully monitored by your school.

HTML info is out there.  It is amazingly easy.  Don't hesitate to try to learn it.

Answer 2

www.blogmeister.com

Email them your school info and they will provide a free passcode to sign up.  You have a lot of space and can create accounts for each of your students.  Very user friendly, and you can moderate the space so that the students cannot post anything inappropriate.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

You can create a free Yahoo E- group.

You then can control membership to the link, like just for your own students to use.

The links you want students to use, can be pasted inside the "description" of the E-group, for easy reference.

You can upload files and send messages to everyone in the group, such as class assigments, or an email that has links pasted inside the email.

Any reply sent from that message also goes to entire group, so if you want students to email assignments or files directly to you, you need your own email address, like at your school, for replies.

The Yahoo e-groups also can list files with links in them.

Yahoo is pretty permanet, but you can delete old members, if the classes change, or start a new egroup for different classes even.

You can also create webpages using comcast or any IPS servicer that you may belong too, it's free, part of your monthly fees, and setting them up is pretty user-friendly.