Website

I decided to look more closely at Internet based ways to provide speaking prompts to my students and to collect their recorded responses for several reasons:


 * I wanted to be able to give them things to do for practice from home, when they don't have access to the school network.
 * I wanted to find ways that would allow students to record with as few as possible steps.
 * I wanted to learn how to have a presence on the Internet for communicating with my students in one centralized, accessible place.

I was thus led to Web 2.0 tools.

First I had to decide how to have a web presence.

One option was my school's content management system that provides each teacher with a web site on the school website.

Here's mine: @http://www.jenkintown.org/subsite/jhs/teacher/492

Another was to learn how to build a website from scratch by learning to write HTML or with the help of software like WordPress. I tried that, too: @http://rdetwiler.net/

Option One was tedious and limiting. Option Two required a longer learning time than I had to give to it.

So, I went with Option Three: @Wikis.

Then I explored tools that I could embed on wiki pages or link from wiki pages.