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The Creation of a Website Using Google Sites

Jens Riechers

Student ID: 001482784

Program Mentor: Shannon Rogers

Assessment Code: TDT1

11/08/2020
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Website Choice

This is the first website that I have ever created, so I am totally new to this experience. I

consulted with my program mentor Shannon Rogers about which program to use as I am a

complete layman on this topic. She gave me several choices to pick from including WIX,

Squarespace, etc. After some discussion about the positives and negatives components of these

website, I took Shannon’s recommendation and went with Google Sites. I felt that this would be

the best fit for creating a website with my knowledge base as well as high marks that my mentor

gave it.

The Construction Of my Google Site

1. To being I went to ww.google.com and signed into my account.

2. After signing into my account, I went to the top right corner of google and went into my

google drive.

3. In google dive, I selected New which opened a drop-down menu

4. In that menu I went down to more, then selected Google Sites.

5. I went to the right side of the page, to Pages and created the four pages for my

assignment.

6. The four pages are Home, Print Instructional Materials, Graphic Instructional Materials,

and Multi-Media Instructional Materials.

7. Back at the top right of the page I then click themes. I chose a theme that I felt best fit

my idea for the site. My site will be a collection of links, materials that will help students

struggling with multiplication and division.

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8. The home page also has a (2) photos of my classroom. I choose this photo because I teach

math and it is a place where students can relate to and know that they are about to take on

the great adventure of learning. I used an image editing feature to crop my images to they

would fit, but Google Site was friendly in how easy it was to upload the images.

9. Under the pictures, I added a caption of what users will expect to find on my website.

10. One the home page, I added a link to a YouTube video that will give visitors an example

of what to expect on the site.

11. I also added a slide for sources so visitors could also see where my collection of sites

came from.

12. I now went to my other slide that you can click from the main page in the upper right

side. These all had the same themes and I added that they are under construction and will

be completed soon.

13. I clicked the preview page on the upper right side to see how the page would look

published. This is my first time publishing the page, so I was nervous. I think everything

went well. I saved my page, paper, and saved my webpage as PDF files as well before

submitting my work.