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Preparation: |
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Explanation of Training:: |
First Segment – Create an 8th Grade ePortfolio Website: (mobile) (Flash) Second Segment – Create “Food Heritage” Web Pages for Your English Project: |
1st Segment: Create an 8th Grade ePortfolio Website |
Step #1: Create A New Site 1a. Explain “Sites” Home Page and Navigation. (mobile) (Flash) Helpful Hint: What If I Want to Change My Sites Theme, Color, or Look After I Have Created It? |
Step #2: Creating a Web Page & Linking to Additional Pages 2a. Open “YourName_8thGrade ePortfolio.” You are viewing your Home Page. Rename it “Welcome.” Write a short sentence welcoming visitors to your ‘Home Page’ (view the model). Format the text. (mobile) (Flash) |
Step #3: Deleting a Web Page 3a. Create an extra page called “Junk,” and then delete it. You now know how to delete web pages. (mobile) (Flash) |
Step #4: Add Tabs For Each Class 4a. Create a functioning tab for 1.”English,” 2.”History,” 3.”Science.” 4.”Math,” 5.”Spanish,” 6.”Elective” (please enter the name of Your elective), 7.”PE,” and 8.”World Wheel.” (mobile) (Flash) Helpful Hint: Making the Tabs or Navigation Bar Invisible/Visible |
2nd Segment: Create Food Heritage Web Pages for ePortfolio Website |
Step #5: Linking a Class Project to the Class Home Page. 5a. Create Project Home Page: View the “English” page. “Add a New Page.” Title it, “My Heritage & Its Food.” Select, “Put page under,” (in this case it will say ‘English’)!! Click on “Create” & “Save.” This is the home page for this project. |
Step #6: Having Subpages Appear in the Navigation Bar View the project Home Page, “My Heritage & Its Food.” Notice how you can see links to the 3 subpages you just created at the bottom of ths Home Page, but they do not appear in the Navigation Bar to the left. Google Sites default only allows you to drop 2 levels on the left Navigation Bar. Solution: Change the parameter to 3. 6a. Open “Edit site layour.” Actually click inside the Left Navigation Bar (it will appear light blue.) A dialogue box will appear that will allow you to change the “Levels of pages to show,” from 2 to 3. (mobile) (Flash) |
Step #7: Add Text & Format Open the document in which you wrote the content for your Food Heritage research project. (mobile) (Flash) |
Step #8: Take A Photo With Your Chrome Book & Insert It into Your Site 8a. Take a photo of yourself with the “Camera” App. on your Chrome Book and save to “Downloads” or “Google Drive. Then Insert your photo onto your sites Welcome Page. Text Wrap the image and format the text. (mobile) (Flash) |
Step #9: Acquiring Images & Inserting Images 9a. Find a “School Book” image using Google Images and save to ‘Downloads’ or ‘Google Drive’. (mobile) (Flash) 9b. Find a relevant image for each of the four “Heritage Food Project” pages: 1. Introduction Page, 2. Research/Family Connection Page, 3. Recipe Page & 4. Works Cited Page, and save them to “Downloads” or “Google Drive.” (mobile) (Flash) |
Step #10: Add A Drop Down Menu 10a. Create a drop down menu from the English tab to the “Heritage Food Project” Home Page. (mobile) (Flash) |
Additional Useful Skills |
Helpful Hint: Creating Links Open the ‘English Home Page.’ Create a link from the word RLS to the RLS website. (mobile) (Flash) |
You Are Done Making Your Website! |