Google Sites

Google offers a free web development service that works well for creating a multiple page classroom website.

You will need to create a Google account to use the service. Google accounts are free and can be activated in a matter of minutes.Take a look at the features offered by Google Sites to see if it will meet your needs.

Navigate to http://sites.google.com

Click on the Create a site... link and sign in with your Google account. Click on the New Google Sites link on the left side of the screen and you will be presented with information to get started.

You can access the Google Sites Help Center for more information:

http://www.google.com/support/sites/

If you decide that a Google Site will meet your needs, click the Sign in to Google Sites if you already have a Google Account.

Important Note: Be sure to record your Username and Password. You will need it every time your edit your Google Site. You will also need to record the Username and Password that you select for Student and Parent access if you decide to password protect the site. You will need to send this Student/Parent Username and Password to me when you have completed your site so that I can view your site and verify your completion of the module requirement.

Follow the step-by-step directions to create your Google Site.

Refer to the Help files (see link above) for additional information and assistance.

If you decide to use this option, create your web page or website and customize to meet your specific needs.

Be sure to include active hyperlinks to several of the age-appropriate and educationally relevant web resources that you have found while working on the second module of the course.

Those clickable hyperlinks are, in my opinion, one of the primary reasons for having a classroom website. It is so much safer to have students start their online explorations with a clickable link to websites that have been previewed and selected by the teacher than to just turn them loose with a search engine or a complicated web address that has to be entered into the browser location bar.

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