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Assignment 1: Instructional Message Design Using Text
- 1. How to Make a Google Site e-Portfolio Julie Maier ETAD 803: Multimedia Design for Learning
- 2. Objective The learner will be able to set up a Google Site for use as an e-Portfolio.
- 3. Part I: Getting your Google profile ready A. Sign in to your Google Account 1) Create a new account, if necessary, at https://accounts.google.com/signup. 2) Sign in to your account at: https://myaccount.google.com/.
- 4. Part I: Getting your Google profile ready B. Prepare your Portfolio Assets 1) Open the webpage at https://www.google.ca/drive/. 2) Click “Go to Google Drive.” 3) Right-click on “My Drive.” 4) Select “Upload files…” 5) Select some files to share within your e-Portfolio.
- 5. Part II: Starting your new Google Site A. Launch a new Google Site 1) Open the webpage at https://sites.google.com/. 2) Click “Create.” 3) Click “in new Sites.”
- 6. Part II: Starting your new Google Site B. Customize your site and homepage 1) Click on the “Themes” tab. 2) Select from the options given. 3) Click on “Untitled site.” …
- 7. Part II: Starting your new Google Site B. Customize your site and homepage 4) Edit the text to give your entire site a title. 5) Click on “Your page title.” 6) Edit the text to give your homepage a header.
- 8. Part III: Building your e-Portfolio A. Add an additional page 1) Click on the “Pages” tab. 2) Click on the round “+” icon. 3) Type in the new page name. …
- 9. Part III: Building your e-Portfolio A. Add an additional page 4) Click “Done.” 5) Click on “Untitled page.” 6) Edit the text to give your new page a header.
- 10. Part III: Building your e-Portfolio B. Add text 1) Use the “Pages” tab to navigate to a page you wish to add text to. 2) Click on the “Insert” tab. 3) Click on “Text box.” …
- 11. Part III: Building your e-Portfolio B. Add text 4) Click within the blue field of the new text box. 5) Type your desired message. 6) Use the relevant buttons to make desired edits.
- 12. Part III: Building your e-Portfolio C. Add a file 1) Navigate to the page you wish to add a file to by using the “Pages” tab. 2) Click on the “Insert” tab. 3) Click on “From Drive.” …
- 13. Part III: Building your e-Portfolio C. Add a file 4) Click on the file in the picker that you wish to add. 5) Click “Insert.” 6) Use the relevant buttons to make desired edits.
- 14. Part III: Building your e-Portfolio D. Build, edit, and preview 1) Repeat the steps in Part III, A-C as necessary. 2) Click on the eyeball icon at the top of the page to “Preview” your whole site. 3) Explore your site looking for anything you may wish to go back and change. 4) Click on the blue “X” at lower right to exit the preview.
- 15. Part IV: Finishing your e-Portfolio A. Put your e-Portfolio on the web 1) Click on “Publish.” 2) Type a unique addendum to your site’s URL. 3) Uncheck the box to “Allow my site to appear in search results” if desired. 4) Click “Publish.”
- 16. Part IV: Finishing your e-Portfolio B. Share your e-Portfolio 1) Click on the arrow next to “Publish.” 2) Select “View published site” to see it on the web. 3) Make note of the full URL shown in your browser. 4) Send the URL to friends or colleagues you’d like to share with.
- 17. Part IV: Finishing your e-Portfolio C. Future site management 1) Visit https://sites.google.com/new to view your collection of Google Sites. 2) Click on a site if you wish to return to editor mode.
Editor's Notes
- ETAD 803 Assignment 1: Instructional Message Design Using Text
- Greetings! This presentation will take you through the steps of building an e-Portfolio to showcase your learning or teaching materials. Google Sites is one of several platforms that work well for building e-Portfolios. Others include Wordpress, Wix, and Weebly.
- You must have a Google Account before you can set up a Google Site. Use an existing Google Account if you have one, or create a new one if necessary. More directions are available on each of these sites if you need more assistance.
- Assets that you want to share on your Google Site need to be uploaded to Google Drive first. Now that you have a Google Account, you can use Google Drive. Files such as Word documents, Powerpoint files, or images might make good additions to your e-Portfolio. Don’t worry if you forget something, as you can repeat this later if you have more files to share. If you are a Mac user, use Control-click instead of Right-clicking.
- The Google Site editor will open in a new window after you select “in new Sites.”
- Any of these steps can be redone if you want to make changes again later.
- Any of these steps can be redone if you want to make changes again later.
- You may wish to have multiples pages for your e-portfolio that show, as examples, “Lesson Plans,” “Unit Plans,” “Assessments,” etc.
- The steps of adding an additional page can be repeated as necessary until you have all of the pages that you need.
- Adding text boxes is necessary to provide annotations, context, and reflective statements for the files you add to your portfolio.
- Explore the button options available to see how you can edit the font style, appearance, or position of an element on the page.
- The files you choose to add could be Word documents, Powerpoint files, images, or anything else that Google Drive will allow you to store.
- The files you previously added to your Google Drive should appear within the picker. Explore the button options available to see how you can edit the size of an element or its position on a page.
- Keep building and editing your portfolio until it contains all of the pieces you desire. Move onto Part IV when satisfied.
- Your site’s URL will begin with https://sites.google.com/view/... which you can see within the “Site location” field, and you add an addendum to create a unique URL, such as https://sites.google.com/view/myeportfolio. You may use lowercase letters, numbers, or dashes within your URL. A red warning message will appear if someone else has already taken that URL.
- You may have to enable pop-ups for your site to open properly in a new window.
- Returning to the editor will allow you to make any changes or unpublish your site.