Child Friendly Wbsite Creator

[cdunn93]

Hi All,

 

I have been asked to run an ICT Club at a primary school. For the first few lessons we will just brush up on some key ICT skills but then I would like to set them a project.

 

One of the ideas I have is for them to create their own website as our school has just recently had a new website made live.

 

However I cannot seem to find a free website provider that would be; Free, Easy enough for the children to use but also safe and isn't always live.

 

If it isn't always live then there would then be no risk of children publishing things they shouldn't be!

 

One of the ideas I have looked at is a Google Site as our school does have Google Apps for Education so they can be managed, however I was wondering if there was another service that anyone may have in mind.

 

Thank you for your help!

[Arreks]

For primary school children, to be honest I'd set up a local intranet site - saves a lot of work/effort and it will be least confusing for them.

[cdunn93]

I understand where you are coming from however that would only be like a VLE/Learning Platform.

 

I actually mean a fully functional website but obviously not too complicated for them and obviously it cant go live due to e-safety.

 

For example I was going to get them to create a powerpoint in like a dragons den style so that can pitch to me their ideas and then using their ideas they can make a website about their product/service. Then at the end we will look at everyones website and see how everyone got on.

[3s-gtech]

I understand where you are coming from however that would only be like a VLE/Learning Platform.

 

Why's that? If you give them usernames on a web server on your intranet, they can operate it however you like, be it via FTP, Dreamweaver, Notepad etc. Would give them all of the flexibility without it being live. Obviously the learning curve may be a tricky one - there are ways of simplifying the process, or using a CMS.