How to Use Google Sites

…to create an Electronic Portfolio

Access the web site: www.google.com/sites

Click “Sign up for Sites:

Create a Google Account-Google Sites

Supply the Required Information…

be sure to “Enable Web History”

Google will send an Email Verification

Check your email…

Find the link in the body of the Email

Follow the link

The Email address is verified…select “click here to manage your account

profile”

You may update your Personal Settings…or view your Web

History

Select “Sites” to visit sites you have built

Access www.google.com/accounts/Login

on subsequent Logins

Enter your Email address and Password to continue (you might want to de-select the

“Remember me on this computer checkbox”

Select “Sites” to begin to build your Electronic Portfolio

Select “Create site”

Name your site “_ _ _702elecport” with the underlines representing your

intitials (Be sure to record the url of your site.)

Write a description, substituting your name for “George Bagwell” in the Site description

Select “Only people I specify…” under Share with

Choose a Site theme…you may broaden your choices by selecting the More themes hyperlink

Select a Site theme

Type the code shown (which improves security of your site) and click Create site

After a short time, your site will appear. You are ready to Edit page

Edit your page, including information as shown below (substituting your name for “George Bagwell”)

Be sure to Save often…

Space down underneath the page heading and Insert a Horizontal Line

If you select the center justify icon, your work will be centered

Insert a table with 2 columns and 14 rows below the horizontal line

Enter text into each of the first column of cells to identify the various artifacts that you

will create in EDUC 702

Add additional rows, with 2 columns into the table…to match the number of artifacts

Select the table, and drag it to the center of

the page

To the left of the page, click on Sitemap

To the left of the page, click on Edit sidebar

Select Attachments from Site content

Click on Upload

Browse to the folder location where the attachment is stored…this should be in a folder with all of your Piedmont documents from EDUC 702

A dialogue box will open so that you can Choose File

You might have to migrate to the directory where your files are stored…it should be a directory called “Portfolio”…select the document that you wish to upload

Click on Upload

Once you have returned from the Upload, right-click on the file name you choose to post

Select Copy Shortcut from the menu that opens

Click on Return to site

Click inside the box where you would like to place the attachment

Once the document link is placed, be sure to Save your work

You can preview your work from the More

actions menu

You can also “dress up” the site from the Insert

menu

Insert a link to another site

Once you have finished be sure to share the site with ...select Manage site from the More actions pull down menu

gbagwell0731@lions.piedmont.edu

Select Sharing from the left sidebar menu

Once you have typed the email address in the open box, be sure to click on the as viewers radio button, and uncheck the Anyone in the world … checkbox

Select Invite these people

You may send a message with your email that notifies the viewer, then click send