The Crib Sheet:
Brief Discussion on google sites along with shared examples of Educational Uses including:
- Sites for Professional Development
- Teacher Websites
- Sites for workshops (hint: are using one now =^)
- Sites for Student Projects
- Sites for Student Electronic Portfolios
Many of the above are ways in which I use sites with my classes and such.
Demonstration- Creating A Site
- Name
- Theme
- Customizing look and features
- Inviting collaborators (owner, collaborator, viewer)
- brief discussion on accessibility based upon invited role
- Setting up page level permissions
- Adding content
- Embedding Content
ActivityCreate a small group of approximately three Choose one person to create a site.- Browse for the template called "site training". Be sure to use this and not site training 2
- Share site with other group members
- Choose which educator you want to be
- Proceed to that page and do the assigned tasks
- First person done comes back to this home page to complete tasks
- If the other two finish, work collaboratively on the Q&A page
- Share what you learned with each other
The next level
- Enabling page level permissions
- Optimize your site for mobile devices
- Changing the navigational structure (horizontal navigation)
- Customize the look with different colors and fonts
- Adding headers and footers (Creative Commons License)
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