Teacher Support

Training Opportunities & Resources

North Clackamas School District

NCSD Instructional Technology

Our GOAL

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Teacher Required Contact Information on Website

Every teacher is expected to create a teacher website with the minimum district contact information requirements:

  • your name/*photo (photos are *optional)

  • school

  • title/assignment

  • telephone # (you can use your school's number)

  • email

If you already have a New Google Site, please be sure that your site URL conforms to the District URL format. It should look similar to a URL like this:

For New Educators who have a template

~ Editing your NCSD Google Sites Website Template

Video #1

Adding:

  • Contact information: name, email, phone,

  • What you teach, website & photo

  • Footers

Video #2

Publishing and viewing other video support resources:

  • You must RE-publish your site EACH time you make changes you want end users to view

  • Where to find other video tutorials for more features and attributes

Video #3

Learning more features and attributes: Where? How?

  • See where these support resources are on your teacher site template

    • Adding/hiding pages, videos (YouTube/other), Google Docs, and much more.

  • Or scroll down on this page (below).

For Teachers who do NOT have a Site template and want to CREATE their own

How to CREATE a NEW teacher Google Site.

This includes how to:

  • create a Google Site if you do NOT have a template already sent to you.

  • select settings for: sharing, URL and publishing

This includes how to:

  • customize your theme

  • create & edits banners, color accents, fonts, etc.

This includes how to edit and move:

  • text (contact information), Sections & Footers

  • images, Alt text (for accessibility)

This includes how to create/edit:

  • Sections and Footers

  • Republishing, Draft and Preview modes

More attributes and features on Google Sites

Creating Additional Site Pages

Creating & Adding Newsletters

  • Slides, Word Processing & PDFs Formats

Creating & Adding Photo Galleries or Class Slides

Announcement Banners

Creating & Adding Google Drive Folders (drag & drop)

Adding Google Drive Documents

Creating & Adding Maps

Vertical GROUPING

Create Buttons

Image Carousels

Add site logo with alt text - new Google Sites

Table of Contents feature in the New Google Sites

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Important Reminder

If you are using or adding images to your website, please be sure that you have the usage rights and permission to do so. Here are some resources that you can use to help find reusable images:

Searching for copyright friendly images with Google Image Search as well as other resources and new alt text feature in the New Google Sites

Copyright friendly resources for images

Make your site accessible: New Alt-Text Feature & your YouTube videos have closed captioning enabled

When you create a site, follow the tips below to make sure it's readable by everyone, including people with disabilities.

Use alternate text (alt text) for images, drawings, and other graphics so that everyone can understand your site. Without alt text, screen reader users just hear "image." Some images automatically include alt text, so it's a good idea to check that the alt text is what you want.

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There are two adjacent videos to help you with adding alternate text.

  1. The first is a broader overview of the Americans with Disabilities Act (what it is, why it impacts you as an educator and how to add alternate text to your Google Site).

  2. The second is an short update on a new (December 2017) feature Google Sites has added to help you with using Alternate text, with certain images.

Inserting Alt-text in New Google Sites


Inserting Alt-text in Google Docs (word processing, slides, spreadsheets)

Uploading videos to your NCSC YouTube account and enabling the closed captioning features

Ensure your NCSD YouTube videos have closed captioning enabled

Printables & Websites

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Printable Handouts

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Teacher Training Calendar

  • please login to your NCSD Google Email Account to View

Options for Additional Training Support: See Calendar Below for Available Training Dates

  • 1/2 Professional Development days: you have two each year (please contact TOSAs to schedule)

  • NCU Classes

  • Pre-scheduled Staff Meetings (You're welcome to attend any other school's training sessions. Just go to the school site with your laptop - no need to register).

    • this is for people who have not had ANY training thus far, or need a refresher of the initial, one hour training

  • Contact Amy Gertenrich-Dwyer, Jake Lee or Carolyn Kirschmann via email for more information

Google's Teacher Center Sites Resource

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Other Helpful Resources

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Questions? Please contact us.

Your NCSD Digital Literacy TOSAs

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