using the model teaching portfolio

This site is in New Google Sites, but there are many other options. No matter which resource you use to create your site, the structure should be very similar to this one. Your page names should correspond to the names of the pages on this site (and therefore with the Portfolio Guidelines). 

To use this site as a model, just navigate through the site and follow instructions and advice on each page as you build your site in WordPress, Weebly, etc. To use this model site as a template, click the "more" menu (the three dots) next to the Publish button. You should see an option to "Duplicate this site." Your EM mentor will have to give you access to the model site as an Editor. 

Before you begin, I recommend that you review sites that your peers have created. Many of them have used Google Sites. Others have used WordPress, Weebly, MSU ePortfolio, and more. 

MAFLT Portfolio Gallery

Then, before you start designing, collect all the materials you want to include in your site in a folder in the same Google Drive account that you are using to make this site. Remember to add documents and also collect images and links that you want to use. Then, adjust the Share settings on these documents in Drive so that anyone with the link can view them.

For a Google Site, your "Media Library" or "File Manager" will be a dedicated folder that you create in Google Drive. Create a folder in your Google Drive that is the storage location for the specific materials that you are embedding in your site. Those can be papers, slide decks, images, and even videos, and they should be the final versions that you are willing to share with the public. Always embed from that folder. That way, when you want to make sure you have shared all your materials properly, you only need to look at that folder and the files in it. Once you have created that folder, upload your copy of the Portfolio Checklist to it. You can edit it as the semester goes on to keep track of your progress.

Link to your Media Library folder in Google Drive: ________________________________________

This page and its sub-pages should not appear in the menu of the published site. You can go to Pages in the Google Sites Editing Dashboard and open the options for this page to "Hide from navigation." It will still appear in the list of Pages, but it will not appear in the site menu.