designing your webpage team edit: summer 2010 educ 6100-4
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Designing Your Webpage
Team EDIT:
Summer 2010
EDUC 6100-4
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
• Open your Google email account• Create a new site• Name your site• Choose from template• Create a page• Edit information• Insert a picture• Insert link
• 4. View templates• 5. Select blank template• 6. Choose a name for the website and
create website • Questions and answers and evaluations
7. Sharing site• Click “more actions” at the top of the
page– 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
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 parents
– save changes
Personalize Your Website
2. Together participants and instructor create additional tabs
– click “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 view
– click “create page” and teachers can use this time to customize their site with relevant links to pages; ideas include Homework, Assignments, Course Calendar
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
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”
• 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.
Example
• In the following slides are the example pages that were used for the steps listed previous.
Return
Google Sites
Sign in or create a newAccount.
Click
Select the template that works best for you!
Name your site
Name your site
Click more options
Select how you want to share the site
Click SAVE
Click, then box will pop up
Fill in information
Click add, to make a new page
