
Google Sites- Presentation by Lisa Thurman
What is Google Sites? It was recently acquired by Google and launched last February.
Some elements of Google Sites to explore:
- To embed YouTube videos- you only need to paste the url
- Embed Google Docs and Spreadsheets- Unit on biotechnology
- Purpose and Audience- Decide first and then select the tool
- Google Site gives you 100mb of storage
- Google Apps- 10 gig of storage
- Here are 5 different types of page types which can be changed for each page
- Filing Cabinet
- Calendar
- 23 themes to choose from
Example of use with students
- How to embed VoiceThread on a Google Sites. Follow this Screencast! Screencast on embedding Voicethread to Google Sites