Google+Sites

[|**Google Sites**] Google offers everyone an opportunity to create professional looking web sites that are easy to make using Google Sites.

My course on Google Docs and Google Sites [] I am available to deliver onsite professional development for graduate credit for Google Docs/Google Sites and several other courses.

Resources

 * To learn more about Google Sites [|click here].
 * This is the replacement for Google Page Creator.
 * [|Google Sites Blog]

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 * Google Sites Tour**

**Overview**

 * User friendly- you do not need to know any coding language. You edit pictures and text just as you would in a Word Document
 * Google allows you to insert all of the other tools that they have into your website. For example, you site can show your calendar, a Picasa slide show, etc.
 * It's free!
 * You can make your site private so that only the people you want to visit the website can see it. You send them an invitation, then they can log on.
 * This may help in bridging the home-school connection. Parents could log on at home to view activities, a school calendar, pictures of students, or sample student work.
 * The website (depending on age) could be student run. Students could be involved in writing a blog of the events that happen everyday, or for older grades, they could take pictures and upload them.
 * A [|premier edition] that offers more storage, more collaboration, and additional applications is available for a fee.

Ideas for the Classroom

 * Students can all create a page and link it to whole class web page. Their web page can consist of personal information and students could complete assignments online at home on their own web page as well.
 * Students could write a blog about what happens everyday on the class website.
 * A student job could be to take a digital image from some point in the day to upload to the website then write a comment about it as well.

Examples of Use in the Classroom

 * [|Example Classroom Website]

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