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Google Sites

Page history last edited by Chelsea 13 years, 7 months ago

A free and relatively easy way to create a website is using Google Sites.  All you need is a (free) Google account to get started.  You can search for Google Sites or click on on the More, Sites drop down from your Google account.

You can then create as many different websites as you like from your account.  You can invite others to collaborate or view your site and protect its privacy by only allowing those invited to view it.  It takes a digital native about 10 minutes to figure out how to use Google Sites as it is very similar to other Google products.  If you need help, there are a great deal of tutorials on YouTube.

 

Ideas for using Google Sites:

 

Portfolio:  Students can publish samples of their work on a Google Site, each with their own page.  Perfect for Creative Writing, research projects, video projects, art projects...  anything you want the students to collect and display... without taking up wall space!

 

Museum: A social studies teacher at our high school had her students build a "museum" using Google Sites throughout the year.  During each unit, the students would have time to create a section on their site about what they learned.  Each section was to include 2 "artifacts" and descriptions - similar to what you would find at a real museum.  At the end of the year, each student had a record of their work as well as having learned how to use an important web tool!

 

Newsletter: Another common assignment is the newsletter.  But, as they say, Print is Dead.  Have the students create a news website.  Think about having them create their own fictitious ads (maybe experimenting with Flash if you have the software and know-how) and their own privacy statement like real websites have.  

 

(Chelsea Sims - Teacher Librarian - Iowa)

 

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