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toc =**Day 6: Google Sites**=

Prerequisite Knowledge
1. Basic understanding of web page design and hyperlink navigation creation. 2. Previous experience editing or designing web pages. 3. Basic understanding of wiki web sharing.

Content
Google Sites offers a shared website building toolbox much like this very wiki. Since it is part of the Google Apps suite, it works seamlessly with Google Docs and other apps, and they can all be easily embedded in page content. If you've used a wiki with your students before, then the concept of using Google Sites should be very similar. Today we will look at ways to build collaborative websites your students can use to publish their work to a wider audience or collect information together. We will spend much of our time playing with Google Sites hands-on, building things you can use in your classroom.

Objectives
By the end of Day 6, participants will:

1. Be able to build a more dynamic website with solid design, navigation, and various embedded elements. 2. Develop strategies for creating collaborative wiki-like projects to enhance language arts learning. 3. Consider long-term potential for student portfolios, large project-based learning environments, and formative assessments with Google Sites.

Lesson Activities
1. Group discussion of web design experiences, classroom website show & tell, and wiki experience discussion.

2. Facilitator leads a brief tour of Google sites controls, sharing methods, and permissions settings. Group discussion question: //How is Google sites similar to Wikispaces (the wiki tool we use for this class)? How is it different?//

3. Participants browse the following sites for a better understanding of electronic portfolios and ideas for student e-portfolios. Dr. Helen Barrett's ePortfolios site: [] Eduscape's Teach Tap ePortfolio topic: []

4. Follow-up small group discussions. Topic: //How can e-portfolios be used to improve student writing over time. What did I see that I liked? Anything I didn't like?//

5. Brief review/tutorial on embedding html widgets and pasting code into Google Sites. Participants build starter "shell" sites for collecting and publishing student work. In small groups, participants share sites and add content. They may embed materials created earlier in this course or create new content. Tip: participants may want to experiment with Google Docs Draw to create images they can insert on pages as well.

6. Group discussion: //How can student-created Google Sites be used as an outside-the-box assessment?// Small group breakout: Develop an idea for a Google Site formative assessment project and develop a rubric for it using a Google document or spreadsheet. Participants embed the rubrics on a new page on their Google sites.

7. Site and rubric show & tell. Post Google Site urls below:

Additional resources and materials

 * These resources contain many ideas for using student e-portfolios and examples:**

Barrett, H. (2011). ePortfolios with Google Apps. Retrieved November 11, 2011 from []

Johnson, L. & Lamb, A. (2007). //Teacher Tap.//Electronic portfolios: Students, teachers, and life long learners. Retrieved November 11, 2011 from []


 * A few other handy tools that can be embedded in a Google site:**

Prezi - [|www.prezi.com]

Timetoast - [|www.timetoast.com]

Voki - [|www.voki.com]

Evaluation
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