Students are humans, they have voices, whether they can speak or not. How students present their voice is what represents their strengths and interests. Weebly.com piczo.com twitter.com edmodo, freshgrade.com all offer ways for students to present their voices. They can present their voices in which ever languages they are interested in. There is always an innate fear of the teacher that the students will be saying something "bad" and the teacher won't know, but that is where technology is beneficial for teachers, regardless of what language is spoken.
There is always the need to express oneself, work, class, social circles. To not offer students a chance to determine how they like to express themselves is to remove an opportunity of success for them. I personally use edmodo rather than weebly.com The website builder is great, but to be honest, I rather the students start with the basics and then develop their voice in a community forum first. I feel building a website might be a more advanced step to begin with as there is a lot of internet and cyber safety training that needs to be explained in open source websites like that. Actually, more advanced website builder (but great for students because its almost inaccessible unless someone has a link to the developer's page) is wix.com
I understand that we do not need to necessarily have students make a website. In general though, it is important to remember there is a level of caution a teacher needs to demonstrate before just setting the students rampant onto the internet. Yes, its true there are blocks for the servers to protect students and school systems, but even as a student I remember learning how to proxy break the firewalls in school to have a wider range of access to resources on the internet. I didn't create a website for this activity, but I had attached a list of websites and resources for us by students and teachers with the main beneficial use of the website as the classification method:
English Language Building Skills
https://esl-lab.com/
https://clickonenglish.blogspot.com/2013/10/english-speaking-countries-in-world.html
readtheory.org
commonlit.org
kahoot.com
memrise.com
socrative.com
Chinese-English Language Skills
Chinese Skill APP:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WF8j1ucx8WI
Chineasy Intro Video;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5FNvW19GbA&list=PLLwIG1DObjQtmyKkksbJn6ke-zZdQo4wq&t=0s&index=2
Online Classrooms
edmodo.com
schoology.com
freshgrade.com
Social Media
twitter.com
Document Processing Software
padlet.com
smore.com
canva.com
piktochart.com
powtoon.com
prezi.com
weebly.com
wix.com
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