Creating a site with Google sites is really simple, thanks to their user friendly programs.
First you can choose a template that you like or you can customize your own, I decided I wanted to customize my own template (I chose a blank template to start from scratch)
Then I chose my site name, and a theme that I liked (sunset)
& from there I decided I wanted to make a more fun website so I decided to do like a photo gallery website, I looked and there are 100s of awesome templates that allow you to chose one you like and are super easy to edit. You can easily add images, links, videos, music, spread sheets, gadgets, and many many more just by clicking insert. In format you can adjust the format you want on your website, number of colums, positioning etc.
Google sites vs Blogger-my opinion, in my opinion blogger is more useful for the kind of things I would need a site for, like having a blog with pictures and opinions and posts. However, for my portfolio I prefer Google sites since it is an actual websites and its all over more professional and has better layout templates for a portfolio type website. Although over all blogger has layouts and templates that I like more and in a bigger variety, I really liked that both you can use gadgets in the well, Google gadgets, and the whole sharing with Google, Facebook, and twitter (along with other social media) (I think is a key concept in these programs. Something I didn't like about Google sites, is I think they could sort of modernize the templates a little because they really aren't that attractive for me. I think a lot of older people like with businesses would prefer Google sites instead of blogger (if I needed a website for that kind of stuff, I would too).
Using Google Sites: Advanced settings:
I learned that you can attacg and embed a multimodal artifact, how to reaarange the layout of your site like how I can rearrange and delete pages or parts of my website, and that after your website is already published, you can still even change the theme of your website. Also features in Google Sites that can make it a great communication and collaboration for small businesses and other teams, like all of the formats when creating a new page on your websites such as announcements, file cabinets, lists or just a regular web page.
My favorite part of google sites is that you can add so many other avialible google apps to your site like google calender, Google maps, Google earth, just to name a few that I though would be extremely useful on a website.Also that you can add things like donation funds on you websites and places where people can pay for stuff directly on your website it's awesome.
I think that teachers along with students could benefit greatly from Google sites because they could use it as Ms.Shawn does to create a class website where there is all we need to know what we will be doing not only that day in class but all semester long, a place where we can check for homework, have resources and where other teachers and students around the world can see what we're doing. Also I think its great that Ms.Shawn has a website so we can show our parents all the cool stuff we're doing not to mention how easy and accsesible it is. Students could also use Google sites to create their own website for example if a student that sells scarves in school could easily make a website on Google sites to expand their business online. Something I think all students could benefit from is making a portfolio on Google sites, although we already made one with Ms.Shawn last year students could update it with new gadgets and Google apps out there. I also came up with the idea of instead of having a blog for homework, we could all have student websites where we could post all of our homework, bibliographies etc. It would be so much easier and more efficient than the system we use at school.
& from there I decided I wanted to make a more fun website so I decided to do like a photo gallery website, I looked and there are 100s of awesome templates that allow you to chose one you like and are super easy to edit. You can easily add images, links, videos, music, spread sheets, gadgets, and many many more just by clicking insert. In format you can adjust the format you want on your website, number of colums, positioning etc.
Google sites vs Blogger-my opinion, in my opinion blogger is more useful for the kind of things I would need a site for, like having a blog with pictures and opinions and posts. However, for my portfolio I prefer Google sites since it is an actual websites and its all over more professional and has better layout templates for a portfolio type website. Although over all blogger has layouts and templates that I like more and in a bigger variety, I really liked that both you can use gadgets in the well, Google gadgets, and the whole sharing with Google, Facebook, and twitter (along with other social media) (I think is a key concept in these programs. Something I didn't like about Google sites, is I think they could sort of modernize the templates a little because they really aren't that attractive for me. I think a lot of older people like with businesses would prefer Google sites instead of blogger (if I needed a website for that kind of stuff, I would too).
Using Google Sites: Advanced settings:
I learned that you can attacg and embed a multimodal artifact, how to reaarange the layout of your site like how I can rearrange and delete pages or parts of my website, and that after your website is already published, you can still even change the theme of your website. Also features in Google Sites that can make it a great communication and collaboration for small businesses and other teams, like all of the formats when creating a new page on your websites such as announcements, file cabinets, lists or just a regular web page.
My favorite part of google sites is that you can add so many other avialible google apps to your site like google calender, Google maps, Google earth, just to name a few that I though would be extremely useful on a website.Also that you can add things like donation funds on you websites and places where people can pay for stuff directly on your website it's awesome.
I think that teachers along with students could benefit greatly from Google sites because they could use it as Ms.Shawn does to create a class website where there is all we need to know what we will be doing not only that day in class but all semester long, a place where we can check for homework, have resources and where other teachers and students around the world can see what we're doing. Also I think its great that Ms.Shawn has a website so we can show our parents all the cool stuff we're doing not to mention how easy and accsesible it is. Students could also use Google sites to create their own website for example if a student that sells scarves in school could easily make a website on Google sites to expand their business online. Something I think all students could benefit from is making a portfolio on Google sites, although we already made one with Ms.Shawn last year students could update it with new gadgets and Google apps out there. I also came up with the idea of instead of having a blog for homework, we could all have student websites where we could post all of our homework, bibliographies etc. It would be so much easier and more efficient than the system we use at school.
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