Create An Amazing Website With Weebly!

Weebly is an incredible way to not only to create a website, but also have it looking as professional as possible! The company was founded in 2007, and it allows users to easily create an online blog, website, or store. The website offers tons of different layouts and works on any device. The basic layouts are completely free for anyone to use, but premium and enterprise offerings are an additional fee that allow for endless new designs and steps for your dreams to come true when constructing your ideal site. So come join millions of users in one of the highest rated web building sites out to date! The video below will go into depth on how the website is one of the best for creating a beautiful website.

David Rusenko the CEO of Weebly announced this past year that the company is launching the third generation of its product called Carbon. He stated that, “With Carbon, it’s not like we’re going to build everything,” Rusenko said. But the update positions Weebly as “the place where you can log in and find a one-stop shop for running and growing your business.” Carbon will include an app center with 40 partner starter apps. The whole Weebly itself got an update as well, with a new look, new themes, and a quicker system, the site will be easier than ever before!

The newest addition to Weebly is relatively new, and it is called Weebly Promote! Promote will be a platform for building marketing emails. CEO David Rusenko stated that, “Email marketing is the number two concern for small businesses behind their website,”. Sending those emails should be a “no brainer,” especially since the Direct Marketing Association has reported that email marketing has a 4,300 percent return on investment. The website allows the same drag and drop tools the use for websites to make it less complicated for the users. Many small business to the site say that it has helped their sales drastically increase! So far Weebly Promote is only available to limited users of the already existing platform, but they hope to make it available to everyone soon starting at only eight dollars a month!

After reading Chapter 9 in The Connected Educator, I realized that many educators still believe the web is used solely as a digital filing cabinet. They do not realize the impact of social media, and how much it has evolved. The internet makes collaboration a piece of cake through finding new people and exchanging ideas. The web offers opportunities that we can integrate into classrooms across the country, but it is not about changing the tools we use, but changing how teachers teach in the modern world. Teachers teach the methods they know through what they have been taught, or because they simply don't know how to use these different technologies. However, soon enough teachers will have evolved beyond delivering curriculum, and instead be connected coaches who understand how to help students construct their own learning. 

Robyn Hrvinatz 

This week I had the privilege of meeting Robyn Hrvinatz, a Senior Teacher Engagement Manager at Microsoft. Robyn was truly a pleasure to talk to and fit perfectly in the classroom environment. She even uses technology and integrates it into the classroom. I asked Robyn, what are some of these technologies that she loves to integrate into the classroom? Her answer was exactly what I was thinking too, and that was Microsoft Onenote. Onenote is a great collaboration tool, and truly allows students to participate in activities depending on what their work cycle is like, and what works for them. This is the future for our education system, and we must embrace these tools for the best learning experience of a lifetime.