Google Sites
Why use Google Sites?
It is easy. Really easy. While Google Classroom is excellent, information tends to get lost in the stream as you post. So, if you are a regular poster kids find it hard to find your stuff. A personalised web page enables you to put all of your teaching resources in one place in easy to understand way.
What can you make? .webmWhat does a Google Sites web page look like?
Click on the video to the left for a guided tour of TC's Lock Down Room. A website made to support the learning of TC's classes during lock down.
Creating a Google Site
This instructional video will take you through where to find Google Sites and how to generate your first blank website.
Finding and creating your first website.webmHow to set the look for your website
All of the demonstration videos below show the creation of this website
Choosing a theme for your website.webmChoosing a theme
In this lesson you will learn how to choose a theme that will be generate the way that your website will look.
Laying Out Your Website
Building your page. The Basics. .mp4 Layout and Text tools
This vidcast teaches you how to insert stock layout tools and how to insert and format text
Image Carousel .webmImage Carousel
This vidcast demonstrates how to insert an image carousel into the home page of your website.
Links to Content Pages.mp4Links to content pages
In this vidcast you will learn to complete your home page by generating buttons on your home page which link you to your content pages
Creating Content Pages
Creating content pages.webmHow to create a content page
In this video you will learn how to create content pages that can be easily navigated to from your home page.
Laying out a content page.webmHow to layout a content page
In this vidcast you will learn how to lay out a content page that has links to your teaching content.
Creating Subpages.webmCreating Subpages under your content page
This vidcast will teach you how to create a subpage that is linked off your content page
Building Subpages
Building a subpage lesson sequence.webm