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Using Google Sites to Create a Communication Hub for Students and Parents

Goals

Understand why a Google Site is beneficial to students.

Create a classroom website using Google Sites.

Embed documents and images from your Google Drive and desktop.

Link outside sources to your Google Site.

Content

Welcoming a learning community into the virtual classroom means offering a single, user-friendly space. Google Sites is an easy-to-use tool that allows you to create a website to meet the needs of parents, teachers, and students.

Please click the following link to go to the module: How to Create a Google Site

Interaction/Try-out/Sandbox

Follow the directions in the screencast, including some of the following:

Log onto Google Sites. Choose the Class template. Create your own website.

Select a theme for your webpage.

Create the pages you want from the "Pages" menu.

Focus on your homepage first!

Evidence

If you clicked "Publish" on your site, you can then copy the link (paperclip icon) and paste it into your Individual Professional Learning Plan.

If you're not ready to publish yet, you can take a screenshot of your site in progress and upload it to your Individual Professional Learning Plan.

Special thanks to Tricia Donley (MASH) for creating this module.

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