Take Your Google Sites to the Next Level with these Intermediate and Advanced Features

Carol LaRow - Educational Technology Consulting and SUNY Albany - School of Education

This session is for those who already have a basic knowledge of the new Google Sites and want to learn some intermediate and advanced features that can take their websites to the next level. Often, people only use the basic features, which can limit the creativity and functionality of their websites. Create more complex, professional looking, and interactive websites by using additional features. Learning how to use additional features can be a valuable skill for educators who want to create more engaging and informative websites for their students. Educators can also teach their classes to use these features as students create ePortfolios, websites that summarize what they've learned, webpages to teach their peers, collaborative projects, etc.

The features are user friendly and easy to learn, yet are powerful enough to create professional-looking websites. 

Prerequisite: A basic knowledge of Google Sites

Some topics to be covered are:

• custom themes
• menu sections for nesting pages
• embedding multimedia content 
• embedding a webpage from a different website
• site permissions
• creating and saving your own templates
• collapsible groups
• table of contents
• image carousel
• announcement banners
• embedding code and iframes
• buttons - navigate to other pages within a site (or to external websites), highlight content, remind users to take specific actions
• page footers
• hiding pages from navigation and why you might use this feature
• adjusting a site's width
• adding Drive folders for visitors to download files
• using placeholders with co-editors
• others . . . 

Conference Strand: How to/Integration

Target Audience: Grades K-12, Post-Secondary