Use Google Sites to create a functional classroom website in 45 minutes. Include 4 screencast tutorials that are 5-7 minutes in length.

1. Set-Up a Classroom
Website in 45 Minutes
Using Google Sites
Scott Burt
Del Rio Continuation HS, AUSD
Email: scottburt@atasusd.org
Twitter: @BurtTeacher
Access these slides at http://tinyurl.com/SLOCUEsites

2. Objectives
1. Learn the benefits
of a classroom
website
2. See how easy it is
to create one
3. Get started on your
own

3. Who am I?

4. Get What You Came For
● If this session isn’t meeting your needs or is
not what you expected, please do not feel
obligated to stay.

5. My Website
● Before we start, I would like you to take
three minutes to poke around my classroom
website so you can get a sense of what I’m
talking about:
https://tinyurl.com/teacherburt/
or Google “Teacher Burt”

6. Benefits of Having a Classroom Website
1. Keep yourself and your students organized
2. Distribute resources and conduct a “flipped”
classroom model
3. Keep absent students in the loop
4. Provide a “window” into your classroom for
parents and the community
5. Share resources with other teachers

7. Tips to Get Started
1. Decide whether to create your site under
your district or personal email
2. Make sure you set your site to “public”
3. Remember that your site will be a
continuous work-in-progress
4. Cut down on storage by linking to your
Google Drive

8. Let’s Get Started
● My objective for the rest of the session is to
help you set-up your own personal websites.
● You have two options:
1) Follow me as I walk through the steps up here on
the screen
2) Watch the screencast tutorials I have posted on the
next 4 slides. You can view the slideshow here:
http://tinyurl.com/SLOCUEsites

9. Step 1: Basic Set-Up

10. Step 2: Create Sub-pages & Links

11. Step 3: Insert Images & Files

12. Step 4: YouTube Videos & Forms

13. Gots & Needs
● How’d the session
go? Please tell me
by submitting Gots
& Needs through my
website.
● For “class,” select
Prof. Development

14. Questions / Comments?
● If you have any questions/comments for me,
please email me at scottburt@atasusd.org