Session Overview
Part 1: The Basics - What and Why!
- Google Sites Overview
- When is Google Sites your answer?
- Activity: Brainstorm ideas for a classroom website
- Homework
- Calendar
- Reminders
- Links to blogs on school website
- Attachments / Handouts to print
- Curriculum overviews
- Project descriptions
- News
- Resources - cool links
- Students and parents
- Photographs / videos
- Teacher Biography
- Planning and managing your site
Part 2: Advanced Control of Your Site - How! - Sharing and Publishing
Important Note: The default for Google Apps is to allow anyone within your domain to edit the page. You can change this when you sign up OR in the Share settings.
- Advanced Content - Embedding
- Picasa albums
- Calendars
- Docs (Documents, presentations, forms, spreadsheets)
- YouTube
- Add Discussions with Google Groups
- Non-Google embed codes (Code Wrapper Gadget / Screencast)
- Advanced Design - Taking Control
- Layouts
- Creating Template Pages
- Changing the Logo (Try Flaming Text to make your own!)
- Customizing your Navigation / Horizontal Navigation
- What else do you want to do, but can't?
Part 3: Hands-on Activity #1 Time to put some of these ideas into play.
- If you don't have a Google Site that you are already using, starting planning one out and create
- If you already have one, add at least two items discussed above.
- Debrief
- What did you add?
- What additional value did it bring your site.
Part 4: Bringing it Further - Think Like a Wiki - Branching Stories
- Micropedias
- Document Analysis
- Collaborative Textbook
- And more...
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