Learning Engagement Activities (Week 3) - Weebly (Website)

This PMI matrix demonstrates the effectiveness of the inclusion of websites into the classroom where the benefits outweigh the disadvantages.

Positive	Minus	Interesting
All parties have had experience with a computer website of some form.	Students will need constant access to a computer depending on the work load.	Endless in terms of information being displayed onto the website
More detailed information along with relevant link in a more properly and easily understood format.	Constant monitoring of students, work is to be planned ahead of time and make sure filters are on and other controls.
Provide students work online with them being able to access it always.
It is relevant to their learning seeing as it is technologically based.
Students are exposed to many resources online both curricular and educational.
Prepare them for other aspects of life with the constant use of websites to share and collaborate
Supports the growing rate of technology being used in the classroom.
Easily to interpret by students, easy to make for teachers.

http://www.edutopia.org/classroom-web-page - ideas were taken from this website.

 
A website is seen to accomondate for all creativity styles and allows students to express in a multitude of different way with help from microsoft and other sources. A website will also allow usage from other websites such as good images or to find suitable backgrounds to customize the website. Students are able to respond to their own creativity with each task and is suitable to do so either by uploading a word document or PDF or response on the website itself is sufficient enough, depending on the tools needed by the student.