Google Sites Overview

This is the presentation file I used when I presented at CUE a few years ago.

Here is a presentation by Steve Woods that does a better job than me at introducing you to Google Sites.

I plan on posting several more screencasts of Google Sites here. Stay tuned!

Google Sites: Simple, Yet Sensational

Thanks to those planning on attending my session “Google Sites: Simple, yet Sensational”

I hope that you gained (will gain) some inspiration about creating a Google Sites for your classroom website, or perhaps another purpose.

Whether you attend or not, I hope you can use my presentation, which can be found here.

It covers:

Creating a new Site

Captcha

Name vs. URL

Templates

Features

Types of New Pages (Web page, File Cabinet, Blog)

Layout of New Pages

Live Links

Sidebar (Automatically or Manually)

Images

Upload files (non-File Cabinet way)

Embedding Google Products

Embedding other things (HTML embed code)

Countdown

Sharing (various degrees of privacy/publishing)

Examples will be shared

Live Demo and Q + A at the end

How do we remember things?

We remember 10% of what we read.
We remember 20% of what we hear.
We remember 30% of what we see.
We remember 50% of what we hear and see.
We remember 70% of what we say.
We remember 90% of what we say as we do a thing.
We remember 100% of what we present.

This has terrific applications / implications for teaching. Having students present to each other is very important (they’ll remember 100% of that content). Sometimes harder to do as far as lesson plans, etc., but if our goal is for students to remember what we’re wanting to each them, we need to move in this direction. Of course, any of the other activities listed are an improvement on just expecting our students to read something and remember it. This as challenging to me as I am nearing the beginning of a new school year.