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=__Using Google-Sites with Your Students: a Portfolio Approach __=



This site is designed to give my fellow teachers at North Coast Academy ERC a step by step guide of how to use Google sites with our career studies students. Google sites provides a wonderful opportunity to allow students to utilize technology to create a professional, online portfolio. In the past, these portfolios were created the old fashioned way. Students created the pieces of their portfolio using Microsoft Word, then printed out and placed into the students binder. The problem with this method was that pieces of the portfolio were often misplaced. Another issue was that students did not take their portfolio with them when they finished their credits and graduated from high school. Students would frequently come back for their resume and other pieces of their portfolio. Sometimes these pieces were not located. The creation of student Google Sites solves these problems because:  This site will provide a step by step resource of how to implement Google Sites within your class. This guide is merely that, a guide. I don't profess to know everything about Google Sites, nor is this guide the only way to use Google Sites within your class. However, I have found the way that I create and use Google Sites very integrative and easy to use. If you have any questions or concerns, please use the discussion tabs on each screen. I will monitor the discussions to answer any and all questions that come my way.
 * The items within the portfolio are all saved on the Google Site, thus preventing loss of individual documents
 * Students have access to their Google Site after graduating from
 * Alternative Education students are empowered and motivated in their education pursuits by utilizing new technologies

Thanks!

Sincerely,

Anthony F. Your Fellow North Coast Academy Facilitator