Office of Educational Technology School District of Philadelphia Introduction to Sites Google Sites This presentation is available at

Office of Educational Technology School District of Philadelphia Office of Educational Technology School District of Philadelphia Objective ●Be able to create at least two pages from scratch on Google Sites in order to establish a presence for yourself on the internet. ●About Me: who you are ●My Work: what you’ve done in school

Office of Educational Technology School District of Philadelphia Office of Educational Technology School District of Philadelphia Agenda ●Sites - Overview ●Basic tools o Support site - ●Build your own Sites

Office of Educational Technology School District of Philadelphia Office of Educational Technology School District of Philadelphia Sites - Overview ●It's free. ●It's easy to create. ●You can collaborate with others ●It is integrated with other Google tools ●The site is searchable using Google Search technology ●All versions of your pages are saved ●You determine who has access to your site and what they see and do ●Users can subscribe to monitor changes to your site ●Your site is stored on Google's secure servers.

Office of Educational Technology School District of Philadelphia Office of Educational Technology School District of Philadelphia Accessing Google Sites Once you are logged into your District Google account, go to “sites.google.com”

Office of Educational Technology School District of Philadelphia Office of Educational Technology School District of Philadelphia Creating Your Site Click the “Create” button to begin creating your site.

Office of Educational Technology School District of Philadelphia Office of Educational Technology School District of Philadelphia Name your site ●Enter a name for your site in the “Name your site” field ●The URL or address will be generated below

Office of Educational Technology School District of Philadelphia Office of Educational Technology School District of Philadelphia Choose a Theme ●Click the “Select a theme” link to select a theme for your site ●Themes can be changed at any time

Office of Educational Technology School District of Philadelphia Office of Educational Technology School District of Philadelphia More Options ●Click the “More options” link ●You can enter a category for your site and a description ●These support Google search technology

Office of Educational Technology School District of Philadelphia Office of Educational Technology School District of Philadelphia Create Your Site ●Scroll to the top and press “Create” ●You will see a message that your site is being created

Office of Educational Technology School District of Philadelphia Office of Educational Technology School District of Philadelphia Your Site Layout Page Title Site Title Sidebar Menu Content Area Press to Edit

Office of Educational Technology School District of Philadelphia Office of Educational Technology School District of Philadelphia Edit Your Site Text Edit Toolbar Editing Menu Bar

Office of Educational Technology School District of Philadelphia Office of Educational Technology School District of Philadelphia Insert Menu ●From the insert menu you can add o Images o Links o Table of Contents o Subpage listing o Horizontal lines o As well as many gadgets

Office of Educational Technology School District of Philadelphia Office of Educational Technology School District of Philadelphia Inserting an Image ●Add images from your hard drive or directly from a website if you have the URL ●Alt text is a short description of the image

Office of Educational Technology School District of Philadelphia Office of Educational Technology School District of Philadelphia Adding an Image

Office of Educational Technology School District of Philadelphia Office of Educational Technology School District of Philadelphia Format Menu ●The “Format” menu allows options to format text including alignment and headings.

Office of Educational Technology School District of Philadelphia Office of Educational Technology School District of Philadelphia Table Menu ●Configure tables using this menu tab

Office of Educational Technology School District of Philadelphia Office of Educational Technology School District of Philadelphia Layout Menu ●This menu allows you to change the organization of your site.

Office of Educational Technology School District of Philadelphia Office of Educational Technology School District of Philadelphia Help Menu ●From this menu you can get help or find keyboard shortcuts.

Office of Educational Technology School District of Philadelphia Office of Educational Technology School District of Philadelphia Saving Your Page Don’t close before it’s done

Office of Educational Technology School District of Philadelphia Office of Educational Technology School District of Philadelphia Adding a Page

Office of Educational Technology School District of Philadelphia Office of Educational Technology School District of Philadelphia New page Settings ●Name your new page. The URL of this page is shown below. ●Choose where your page will go in the hierarchy of the site.

Office of Educational Technology School District of Philadelphia Office of Educational Technology School District of Philadelphia Pages on Top Level ●Choosing “Put at the top level” will create a tab along the top as a main topic.

Office of Educational Technology School District of Philadelphia Office of Educational Technology School District of Philadelphia Pages Under Home Page Choosing “Put page under Home” will make the page a subpage of the Home page.

Office of Educational Technology School District of Philadelphia Office of Educational Technology School District of Philadelphia Site Settings ●From Site Settings you can o see the revision history o move pages o copy pages o print pages o delete pages o edit the site layout o manage the site o set sharing permissions

Office of Educational Technology School District of Philadelphia Office of Educational Technology School District of Philadelphia Page Settings ●Ability to change the current page’s URL ●Adjust other settings for the page.

Office of Educational Technology School District of Philadelphia Office of Educational Technology School District of Philadelphia Previewing Your Page ●Displays your page as an end user would view it

Office of Educational Technology School District of Philadelphia Office of Educational Technology School District of Philadelphia Editing Site Layout

Office of Educational Technology School District of Philadelphia Office of Educational Technology School District of Philadelphia Manage Site

Office of Educational Technology School District of Philadelphia Office of Educational Technology School District of Philadelphia Sharing and Permission Click this first

Office of Educational Technology School District of Philadelphia Office of Educational Technology School District of Philadelphia Warning!!!!! Once your page is shared and active, all edits made to your page are immediate and live. Before you leave we will review steps on how to make individual pages private for editing purposes

Office of Educational Technology School District of Philadelphia Office of Educational Technology School District of Philadelphia Work Time At this time we would like you to create content on your page/pages, before we discuss additional permissions

Office of Educational Technology School District of Philadelphia Office of Educational Technology School District of Philadelphia Sharing and Permission Click this first Enable page-level

Office of Educational Technology School District of Philadelphia Office of Educational Technology School District of Philadelphia Sharing and Permission Accepting and enabling page-level permissions

Office of Educational Technology School District of Philadelphia Office of Educational Technology School District of Philadelphia Sharing and Permission Select page Adjust permission

Office of Educational Technology School District of Philadelphia Office of Educational Technology School District of Philadelphia Sharing and Permission Select “Custom” to control access to particular pages

Office of Educational Technology School District of Philadelphia Office of Educational Technology School District of Philadelphia Sharing and Permission Select who can ●view ●edit