Showing posts with label Google Sites. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Google Sites. Show all posts

Jan 31, 2017

New Google Sites!


Periodically, Google does updates to its most popular apps.  This has recently happened to Google Sites.  If you have tried Google Sites in the past and found it to be a little clunky, you need to look at it again!

Google Sites is easier to use than ever, though it is not quite as feature rich as the "classic" version, I see more updates coming to add back these features and more!

Google Sites is a free website creation app, built right into your Google Apps for Education (GAFE) tool set, as well as for those who have an individual Google account.





It is easy to build a website from scratch, using Google Sites.  You can add pages to the home page, edit any page add items (links, folders, documents, files, images, etc.) to any part of the webpage.  Adjust themes, colors, fonts, check readability of your color and font choices, to create a professional looking readable website.  The website is responsive, and the preview mode will allow you to check what the users will see on computers, tablets and smartphones.  Google provides you with access to many commercial usage approved images for enhancing your pages, and linking anything that is part of some other Google app is one click away.  Google Sites uses WYSIWYG to make things real simple on the site construction.

INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES: Compare/Contrast, Reflection, Digital Storytelling, Creating, Collaborating

Bloom's Level: 3-6  (Applying, Analyzing, Evaluating, Creating)

-ePortfolio
-Creativity
-Innovation
-Infographics
-Collaboration
-Digital repository
-Project Based Learning
-Resource gathering and storing

Aug 10, 2016

Use Google Sites to create free easy website to house your information.


You can use Google Sites to create a website, ePortfolio, digital storybook, infographics or use as a digital repository to store content of any kind: text, spreadsheets, drawings, presentation, image, web links, audio files and videos.

Google Sites is a free website creation app, built right into your Google Apps For Education (GAFE) tool set, with a short learning curve. 




Quickly build, edit and publish a website that can be shared with who every you want to get access to.  Easy to build, templates available, be creative or use a nice starting point to launch your website.

INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES: Compare/Contrast, Reflection, Digital Storytelling, Creating

Bloom's Level 3-6  (Applying, Analyzing, Evaluating, Creating)

-ePortfolio
-Creativity
-Innovation

-Infographics
-Digital storytelling
-Resource gathering
-Project Based Learning

-Digital repository

Jun 6, 2014

Examples of ePortfolios

Creating a website for sharing your work and communicating information is quite easy to do with the right tool!

We created ePortfolios using Google Sites, Weebly, and Pathbrite to see how each one worked. The list below is in alphabetical order and gives a link to the official help page and my example sites so you can see what an end product might look like. Let us know if you'd like us to check out another ePortfolio building tool.

You may wish to use a website to create an ePortfolio!  These sites allow you to do this with relative ease.

Value of an ePortfolio (check this out!)

Google Sites

Free. Now that Baker College is a Google Apps For Education institution, using Google Sites for ePortfolios will be an efficient choice for many students.  One of the templates built into Google Sites is specifically for e-Portfolios!

Pathbrite

Individuals can get a free account. They have paid accounts for institutions. It's simple to use and good if many of your projects are web-based. Since it's so simple to use, it's less flexible.

Weebly

A basic site is free. Templates are available to help you get started or you can build from scratch. Weebly gives you opportunities to purchase various add-ons from domain names to images, if that is a desire, but not necessary.

A basic site is free.  Templates are available to help you get started or you can build from scratch. Wix gives you opportunities to upgrade your site, but it is not necessary.