Week #8 - Google Site

Today we got to add pages to our google site and put it together as though it were a site for our students and parents. This was wonderful. We were introduced to google sites a few weeks back and created our home page. However, after not doing anything else I thought that was the extent. I was glad to have this opportunity to develop our site more and expound on what we first learned. My favorite thing about it is imbedding the google calendar into the site. I haven't figured out if I did it correctly, but I believe that once it's imbedded correctly, any updates made on google calendar are made automatically on the site. I also love the idea of having an announcement page and student of the week page. I definitely plan to have a class website when I become a teacher. I think the benefits are wonderful for parents, students and the teacher. It's a great way for everyone to be on the same page and is another great way to help get parents involved.