Creating and Publishing a Google Site

Learning Resource Type

Learning Activity

Subject Area

Digital Literacy and Computer Science

Grade(s)

Overview

Global collaborators will be taken through the steps to create their own Google site to use as an online portfolio.

This Nearpod lesson can be teacher led or student paced. Students will need to have a Google account to log into to use this resource.

This activity results from the ALEX Resource Development Summit.

Phase

Before/Engage

Digital Literacy and Computer Science (2018) Grade(s): 5

DLCS18.5.17
Publish organized information in different ways to make it more useful or relevant.

Vocabulary

infographic
student created website
organized information

Knowledge

Students know:

information can be created and published in different ways to make it more useful, easier to understand, or relevant.
multiple ways to create and publish information.

Skills

Students are able to:

organize and publish information in different ways such as infographics, student
created websites, digital books, audio, video, etc.

Understanding

Students understand that:

information can be organized and published in different ways using images, text, inforgraphs, websites, digital books, etc.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this lesson, students will have created their own web page. They will know how to add pages and subpages to publish organized information in different ways to make it more useful or relevant.

Activity Details

Students will create a web page using Google Sites. It will be up to the teacher as to who will have access. The Nearpod lesson is designed to work within a Google School System, but can work on students' personal accounts with teacher supervision.

Students will be able to share their site with their classmates for peer editing/peer review and teachers an alternative to handing in assignments and as a portfolio.

Nearpod is an interactive classroom tool for teachers to engage students with interactive lessons. Nearpod offers complete lessons that include both instruction and activities. Activities can be teacher-led or student-paced.

This particular lesson is designed so that it can be student-paced. Of course, it is up to the teacher whether he or she allows it to be done this way.

The teacher needs to log into his or her Nearpod account and launch the lesson, whichever way he chooses, and then share the activity code with the class.

Assessment Strategies

Students will be sharing their site with the teacher.

It is recommended that teachers either use a grading rubric to check off 1) student has shared site, 2) site is properly named, 3) biography is there, 4) separate pages for each subject.

Teacher gives students a new assignment (can be PPT, report, etc.) for student to add to a new subpage beneath teacher's subject. Some of the grade will come from the assignment itself, and some from it being properly posted.

Variation Tips

Social studies classes can use this for students to post daily current events.

Background / Preparation

Teacher needs a Nearpod account to launch the lesson.

Students must have access to their own Google accounts, either school or personal.

Nearpod: Building Your Own Web Page/Google Site

https://share.nearpod.com/IXllyI7uuX

Approved Date

2019-06-16

Owner (Author)

alliflowers

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