Google Sites Learning It and Integrating It 12/18/2015 ® Session 1

Information from Instructor 1.If you didn’t hear an introduction to the course, adjust your speakers and use the red navigation button below to go back and test your system again.

A Few Things to Remember Use the arrow buttons at the bottom of the slides to navigate. You can always go back to a previous slide if you need to review. Words that are blue and underlined are links to web sites or video tutorials. When viewing tutorials use full screen for better viewing. full screen

Introducing Google Sites! Intro to Google Sites A Quick Tour – Watch the intro, quick tour and features section

Google Sites at School Access though schools Google Apps page Browse sites at your schools Search a site at your school You can’t search sites through a regular google account Screen cast to browse and search sites. Screen cast to browse and search sites There is no sound on this slide

Google Sites as Wiki Wiki in Plain English Google Sites at a school vs, Google Sites with you regular Gmail account

Things to Think About Audience – Who, what Design – Choose appropriate colors, fonts images – Use white space – Images that help not distract – Example site Example site

Things to Think About 2 Content – Most important info “above the fold” – Headings that make sense – Short and sweet paragraphs – 15 second rule Navigation – No more than 5 -7 links Use sub pages Example web site using sub pages Example web site using navigation broken into sections

Creating Create a site Use template Choose your site url with care – Can’t change this – Can’t be reused even if site is deleted Site Categories and descriptions Screencast for creating

Basic Sharing Everybody- school domain Only people I specify Anyone in the world Screencast about sharing

Practice Create a site and share it with your instructor – Make sure you give editing rights to your instructor You just have to name the site – Pick some site categories for it, if you are in a Google apps of Education domain In a word document briefly reflect on how and why you chose the name for you site. If you chose categories how did you pick the categories. “ Turn in” on the Edmodo Google Course Page Google Sites Session 1 Assignment