The Teach42 blog by Steve Dembo recently pointed out Demofuse, a new online application that allows you to create a tour of your website. Steve has an example of one he created — it’s a little difficult to explain in words.
I’m thinking about trying it out on my own site. I also think it might be an interesting exercise for my English Language Learner students to do on their own webpages they create next year.
I’ve placed the link on my Examples of Student Work page under Student Web Pages.
As a slight variation, Tim Childers put a different educational spin on it, by using DemoFuse to walk students through math demonstrations.
http://www.timchilders.com/slope.htm?dftid=1427297
Love the idea of having your ELL students create tours of their own web pages. Be interesting for non-ELL students to create tours in other languages as well.
Steve,
Thanks for your comment, and the thoughtful posts you write for you blog.
These Web 2.0 applications are pretty amazing. Sometime it seems like a new one comes out each day that has a fascinating use in the classroom.
Designing and creating a website is piece of cake these days.It is no more difficult than using a word processing program or drawing a picture on a blank piece of paper indeed.The best thing to start with is to consider your reasons for doing so. It is very important to have a goal or target audience in mind.To create a website, there are a number of good free and paid builders available. Fortunately, some are quite easy to learn. In fact, after a few hours of playing around you could get a professionally looking website up and running !And if you want to add in a few more advanced tricks you can insert these without having to really understand the way they work – you’ll fathom out as and when you need to.I think the message really is just experiment and try different things out until you find something you can work with. Jeff