Technology through Time

Standards: Participant will understand and use basic computer skills to research and use web-based tools to complete their ITLP. ISTE 3.D, Alaska 8.D Google Sites has so many possibilites, from building simple class or course web pages to maintaining a class "wiki." Not to mention the many tutorials, samples, lessons, templates, and support groups online to help you kick off your Google Site pages. This lesson will provide you with the basics to get started and a quick tour around the site. DESIGN YOUR SITE Before you head over to Google Sites, and you will hear this from every web designer, design your site. AKLN ITLP Cohort 1 has designed a series of lessons to walk you through designing your site and setting it up. This can be located here: Create an Online Lesson Using Google Sites . SETUP YOUR SITE STEP 1 Now that you have your design in place, we are ready to setup your site. To begin, you will need to login to your Gmail. To begin with  a site i...

There are a million reasons for online lessons, but perhaps this resource reminds why we access resources online and use them for teaching. What others can create to share with us to better or further or understanding of complex topics is amazing. Here is a great example of a Biology concept, to help students better understand the cell size and scale. Utah State University put together a great simple Flash object , a student can zoom in and out of different items to compare there sizes. If that was not enough, one can look in the upper left hand corner to see these items on a 1 mm graph paper scale. Not only are we learning about science, but math as well.