Google Sites: Building Your Web Presence
Link for today’s session
www.randydamewood.com/presentations
Randy Damewood, Coffee County Schools
@randydamewood
https://plus.google.com/+RandyDamewood/posts
Things Sites might do better than Google Classroom
Sh
Sharing Info Outside of the classroom (Parent info,Syllabus,etc.)
Linking to Classroom resources (study guides)
Exit Tickets (same place all the time, cleans the stream)
Link to your Youtube Channel
Student Portfolios
Embedding a Class or School Calendar
Creating a School or Department IntRAnet
Sites can even do blogs (Daily notes are posted)
Goal is to create a site quickly and one that does not need a whole lot of care.
This ain’t going to be world class web design. This just gets the job done in time for supper.
For our purposes today,
Have some resources already created
Folders to be shared (photos/videos)
Documents
Presentations
etc.
Begin by Creating a Site.
Sites.google.com
Add some pages (think about what you need during the year)
When you create a page, Sites will automagically add a link (this can be set to manual)
Each Page can even have its own permissions
(docs would need to be adjusted)
Everyone
2nd Period
4th Period
Only the student that is taking class notes today
An Example Site
Things to Note
Sharing - Like Docs, only one at a Time can edit and anything that you put (embed or link) that is part of your Google Docs MUST be given proper rights
You must Save your work do not leave the pages before you save
You can go back in time
You can make certain pages secure
One of the best ways to tie your Google Apps experience with your students
Search Youtube and the web for more tutorials than you can ever view - Make sure that they are current
Sharing with groups vs. Sites
You Send
Student Get
Web Address Mapping
Web Address Mapping
Web Address Mapping
Need to apply here to get access�Must be a SuperAdmin
Here we Go!
Play along if you like!!!
Plan, but you can always go back
Plan your site first - Think about the pages you want. Create the pages. Think of them as placeholders. Then add the content -
Experiment with the different templates and themes. You can always undo
Remember- You can not link to a page on your site until it has been created.
Final Thoughts
Make a Site - then Make a copy and call it Sand Box - Here you can experiment and not mess up your regular site - Good to make sure you have permissions right for secure pages, training for your students. (If you do not make it public then no one can see it)
You can make one master site (like 1st Period) and then copy for 2nd, 3rd, etc or make a test site, homework site, etc just use the URL to link between sites.
Use the Keyboard Shortcuts - will save you a lot of time
If you can’t find where to do something MORE MORE MORE!
Google Sites is a Great, (one of the best) for the Flipped Classroom
Feel Free to share my stuff or ask more questions