Embedded Files
Links are those blue underlined sections of text that you see on web pages that allow you to jump from one web page to another when you click on them. On your class web site you might use links as a reference, rather like a footnote, or you might link to an article or academic paper that you want the class to read. You could also even link to another page on your web site, like a Resources page.
Let's add a link to an article in your site. LInks to articles may be inserted in a number of ways such as providing the direct link to the article; embedding the link within your selected text or a graphic; or using the <embed> function in New Google Sites.
· To Share the Direct Link to the Article
· To Share the Direct Link to the Article
o Open the article in a new tab in your browser
o Highlight and copy the URL from the address bar (Ctrl-C or Command-C)
o Paste the link along with whatever text you desire, in a text box on your site.
o It will look something like this: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/16/opinion/white-racism-threats.html
o If the link isn't underlined, put your cursor at the end of link and press the space bar. Hopefully that will turn it into a workable link. Sometimes you might want to click the A command in the edit box to change the color to really highlight that it's a link.
That worked pretty well, but direct links are kind of ugly. You might want to make them look better by embedding the link in some text on the page. You can click this text to jump to the embedded link.
To Embed the Link in Some Text or Graphic
To Embed the Link in Some Text or Graphic
o Open the article and copy its URL
o Create text or insert a graphic on your page
o Highlight the text or graphic
o A box will open that looks like this:
Click the link symbol that looks like this:
Enter the article's URL and it will be applied to the highlighted text or graphic.
An alternative way to apply the link is to first copy the web address from the web page to which you want to link, then highlight the text to which you want to apply the link. Hold down the Ctrl or Command key and press the K key (Ctrl-K or Cmd-K). Then press Ctrl-V or Cmd-V to paste the link into the highlighted text.
Paywalls
Paywalls
You might want to link to an article from the Boston Globe, Washington Post, New York Times, or perhaps the New England Journal of Medicine. You might have a subscription to one of these web sites, but not all of your students will. So when you put a link to content that is behind a paywall, some of your students won't be able to access it.
There are a few ways around this problem. The New York Times lets you click a Sharing button and get a link to the article that can be shared with people that don't have a subscription. Many other sites will allow non-subscribers access to a limited number of articles, like three per month, so sharing one or two articles may not cause problems. But for some sites, the only way to share an article may be to convert it to a pdf and upload it to your Google Drive and share that document. You can Print to pdf on Mac and Windows computers, although sometimes the formatting gets screwed up. You can also copy and paste the document into a Word Document and upload that into your Google Drive. We'll learn how to share documents in two chapters.
It's a good idea to ask your SGSC liaison to review your site and check all the links before class starts to make sure you don't run into sharing issues with your class.
Using Google's Embed Function
Using Google's Embed Function
You can use Google's Embed function to place a graphic preview as a link to your article, like this:
o Open the article and copy its URL
o Go to your page, double click to get the Circle, and select “< >”
Or you could go to the editing window on the right and click “Embed”
o Enter the URL into the box that comes up and looks something like the illustration below. If you like the Preview, click Insert.
If Google is not able to give you a nice preview, for some reason, it will just insert the link.
Sometimes when you try to use the Embed function, Google won't be able to find a good graphic to use. In that case, you can take a screenshot of the page, paste the jpeg or png image into your site, and add the link to the image.
To Make a Link to another page on your web site
To Make a Link to another page on your web site
Follow the steps in To Embed the Link in Some Text or Graphic, above. When you click the link symbol, instead of pasting a URL from another site, you can scroll down the list of pages on your own site with the down arrow key and just select the one you want to link to. I'll use that to go to the next page on this web site: Youtube.
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