Day 1: Intro to Google Sites
Topics:
Presentation - Introduction to Google Sites
Opening sites
How to create a new site
Create and Edit a new page
Page types
Edit Page - basic tools
Saving and deleting pages
Activity - Create a Site
Presentation: Sites templates
Activity - open portfolio template and customize
Upload the day's artifacts
Resources:
Explore the lessons and ideas for 21st century learning at Gone Google!
Good basic Sites information on this Sites Cribsheet.
Here's a basic tutorial handout.
Google Sites help has tutorials on many useful topics to support your work with Sites.
More help from Google with Sites, Working with Sites, Working With Pages, Learning More.
You'll find additional help at the Google Sites help forum.
Building a website with Google sites video.
Even more sites resources:
Resources from Lead Learner: Lisa Thumann
Tips and Tricks
- Screencast on embedding Voicethread to Google Sites
- Screencast on embedding multiple calendars
- How to add an Animoto to your Google Site
- How to embed a Glog on a Google Site
- Using Announcement Pages for Blogging
- Great Example: http://peace.castilleja.org/blog-1
- Want to embed a gadget using the Featured Gadgets? Use http://www.gstatic.com
- Export data from Google Sites - from the Data Liberation team at Google.
Exemplary Administration Google Sites