1. Designing Your Webpage Team EDIT: Summer 2010 EDUC 6100-4

2. Creating Your Website Participants will setup, allow student access, and privacy controls to class website Set up website (click the link, and once at the desired slide, click again and it will return you to this slide.) 1. Access the internet and the Google home page. 2. In the Google search bar, type in Google sites. 3. Sign in to Google account or create a new Google account

3. Open your Google email account Create a new site Name your site Choose from template Create a page Edit information Insert a picture Insert linkCreate a new site

4. 4. View templates 5. Select blank template 6. Choose a name for the website and create website Questions and answers and evaluations

5. 7. Sharing site Click “more actions” at the top of the pageClick “more actions” –choose “share this site” –add email addresses of students as collaborators – add email addresses of parents as viewers 8. Privacy controls –uncheck the box under “sharing” to keep website private

6. Personalize Your Website Participants will organize and personalize their class website Organization 1. Show components of Website features –Navigate and project to students by showing “edit page” and type in a welcome message for students and parentsNavigate and project to students by showing “edit page” andtype in a welcome message for students and parents –save changessave changes

7. Personalize Your Website 2. Together participants and instructor create additional tabs. Together participants and instructor create additional tabs –click “edit sidebar” and add a navigation tool button; name this About Meclick “edit sidebar” and add a navigation tool button; name this About Me –click “create page” and type in personal information for parents and students to viewclick “create page” and type in personal information for parents and students to view –click “create page” and teachers can use this time to customize their site with relevant links to pages; ideas include Homework, Assignments, Course Calendarclick “create page” and teachers can use this time to customize their site with relevant links to pages; ideas include Homework, Assignments, Course Calendar

8. Personalize Your Website 3. Explain how to save all changes –Personalization Allows participants to create various enhancement based upon their individual preferences. allow teachers time to experiment and explore with design features, section headings, etc practice with headings and fonts while in “edit” mode

9. Student Collaboration Participants collaborate to demonstrate understanding of website development and the transfer of learning. –Adding student collaboration feature click “create page” title the page “Student Collaboration”

10. Type a welcome message encouraging students to use this page for relevant questions, comments, or to ask for help with a particular concept Be sure to save changes Participants demonstrate competency by recreating the above sequence by instructing their partner in the class.

11. Example In the following slides are the example pages that were used for the steps listed previous.

12. Return

13. Google Sites

14. Sign in or create a new Account. Click

16. Select the template that works best for you! Name your site

17. Click more options Select how you want to share the site

21. Click SAVE

23. Click, then box will pop up Fill in information Click add, to make a new page

24. Resources www.googlesites.com