Switching to a Google Class Website to Give Students More Resources
This year I have started to develop a Google website for journalism. I have been meaning to do this for years, and had a WordPress site that didn’t get much use about five years ago. I think the Google site will be more valuable to students mainly because of the Google Docs embed options and the embed video options.
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The link to the site is here. It is in Death Star or almost operational mode. I plan on developing it over the year with more tutorials, outlines, and useful web resources. The more I think about how technology can be used in the classroom the more important I think having a highly developed teacher website becomes to a class.
I chose Google because I use Google Docs and inserting documents, forms and videos is very easy. Modifications are also fairly intuitive. To start building your site you need a GMail address. On the top menu on the GMail homepage is a more button. On the bottom of that drop down menu is the EVEN MORE button. Click on that and then navigate down to the Home Office section where there is a link for SITES. Click on sites and then you can begin creating your site. I recommend not using any of the themes. You will have more options for modification if you don’t use one of your themes.
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