{"id":2635,"date":"2011-06-14T15:47:16","date_gmt":"2011-06-14T22:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yola.com\/blog\/?p=2635"},"modified":"2013-02-19T03:14:24","modified_gmt":"2013-02-19T10:14:24","slug":"seventh-graders-ace-their-yola-assignment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yola.com\/blog\/seventh-graders-ace-their-yola-assignment\/","title":{"rendered":"Seventh-Graders Ace Their Yola Assignment"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Classical<\/a><\/p>\n

Back in March, math teacher James Hochdorfer gave his 7th-grade algebra class at Classical Magnet School<\/a> in Connecticut an unusual assignment.<\/p>\n

He asked the 12- and 13-year-olds to make their own websites with Yola.com<\/a>, to show they understood the math concepts they\u2019d been learning all year.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey started to panic,\u201d explains James, who\u2019s been teaching for seven years. \u201cThey wondered how they\u2019d be able to do it all in just a month,\u201d he says. \u201cThen they quickly saw how easy it was to work with Yola to make a really awesome website.\u201d The kids didn\u2019t have any special technical skills to start with, worked on PCs, and finished their Yola sites in just four weeks of class time.<\/p>\n

It looks like James\u2019s kids had a ton of fun building their sites<\/a>, from choosing templates<\/a> to using tools like our HTML, text, and picture widgets. We especially love the animations<\/a> on some of their pages.<\/p>\n

\"Solving<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThey really got a kick out of the voki and animate widgets. But overall, they were most impressed with the embedding feature,\u201d says James.<\/p>\n

\"MFP3\"<\/a><\/p>\n

James has a few recommendations to start your own class site-building project:<\/p>\n