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=** Building Teacher Websites with Google Sites **=

//__Production and distribution of Writing__// 1. Produce clear and coherent writing appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. 2. With guidance and support from peers and adults, develop, and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach. 3. With some guidance and support from adults, use technology, including the internet, to produce and publish writing as well as to interact and collaborate with others. //__Research to Build and Present Knowledge__// 1. Conduct short research projects that use several sources to build knowledge through investigation of different aspects of a topic. 2. Recall relevant information from experiences or gather relevant information from print and digital sources; summarize or paraphrase information in notes and finished work, and provide a list of sources. 3. Draw evidence from literary or information texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
 * Related Anchor Standards **

**Examples of Google Sites**
 * || [[image:richau)cw.png width="227" height="169" link="@https://sites.google.com/a/googleclassrooms.org/mrs-richau/Home"]] ||  || [[image:club.png width="215" height="168" link="@https://sites.google.com/a/googleuniversity.org/ski-club/Home"]] ||   || [[image:profile.png width="229" height="159" link="@https://sites.google.com/a/altostrat.com/jkraus/Home"]] ||
 * || [|Classroom] ||  || [|Student club] ||   || [|Employee profile] ||


 * Getting Started with Google Sites **

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** Examples Teacher Website with Google Sites **

Sample 1: Mrs. Nelson's Class

Sample 2: Mrs. Gagne's Kindergarten []

**Other Ideas for Class Projects with Google Sites** //**Have ** **your students document your School Trip** // The 8th grade class at the Castilleja School used a Google site as a collaborative travel journal to document and share their class trip to Washington DC. They posted photos using Picasa, archived their nightly live "Down Low from DC" broadcasts using Google Video, and posted updates using the Announcements feature in Google Sites. Castilleja used the List page template to link to their Twitter stream of student and teacher updates. "The Google Site as our trip home base turned out to be a very nice way to share our journey through the historical Washington DC area with our school community." **School Trip Instruction Site:** [] **Site:** []



[|sites.google.com] [] iTeach.org offers [|FREE Web Hosting for teachers] and free email for teachers who teach at any public or private school teacher and allows for the creation of web pages and sites at a classroom, school or district level. [|teacherpage.com] [|www.teacherwebsite.com] Create free websites and blogs with a drag and drop interface Weebly Another website resource for educators is [|www.nylearns.org] It isn't free anymore, however.
 * Sites for hosting free class websites:**

**Do Now**: Create your own Class/ School Website

Before you begin, you should plan the structure of your classroom Web site. You might map out the main pages and secondary pages. A classroom Web site should include at least the following pages:
 * A Guideline for Structuring the Classroom Web site **

**//1. Home Page//** The home page needs a title, perhaps setting forward some metaphor or theme that will be repeated in the rest of the site. Your home page should include your name (with a working e-mail link), perhaps an appropriate picture of yourself, and other attractive photographic or visual elements. Your home page also provides links to the other main pages in yours site, including those for students, parents, teachers, your professional portfolio, your teaching philosophy, and any personal information. To achieve this, you should create a navigation bar, place in a consistent location on every page. This page should include on-line syllabi, links to sites that support activities you might use as a teacher, links to [|e-communities] that could supplement your course, recommended reading lists for your students, and learning activities such as [|WebQuests.] On this page you may want to summarize your teaching philosophy in an appealing way and add links to your complete philosophy and other professional or student work or writing you have done. You can include "handouts" or resources for classes you teach, grading information, expectations, rubrics, etc. **//3. Parent Page//** Again, your parent page might link to your teaching philosophy, allow you to post student work and grades, provide links of interest to parents and other sites you think parents would find important. Here are some [|recommended sites for parents]. On this page for teachers and colleagues you can post links to lesson plans you have created, teaching ideas from professional journals and from the Web, links to professional teacher organizations, and other links, resources, or materials that might interest teachers or colleagues. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">**//5. Teaching Philosophy Page//** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">This page should demonstrate your professionalism and philosophies. Use current professional and theoretical language, and write the page so that it can be understood by a variety of potential audiences including future employers, colleagues, students, and parents. Be sure to break up your text into manageable sections by using anchor tags. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">This page can serve as your teaching portfolio and may be especially important for your intern supervisor and future employers. Post professional materials and accomplishments from your teaching and/or teacher preparation courses and intern teaching. Include your resume. Consider using .pdf format to make your resume more attractive (From Teaching with Technology: http://www.wmich.edu/teachenglish/subpages/technology/classwebsite.htm#samples)
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">2. Student Page //**
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">4. Teacher Page //**
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">6. Professional Page //**

1. Plan the structure of your website using the guideline above. 2. Go to Google Sites and create an account: [] 3. Choose your own theme/background! 4. Replace the titles for each page with the ones you've planned above. 5. If you still have time, fill out some of the contents for each page. 6. Share with other participants!
 * Set Up Your Own Class/ School Website Now! **

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