Using Google Sites and Google Classroom in the classroom - Teaching with Technology (2024)
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Hey, all! Happy Sunday! I hope you’re having an awesome weekend and, if you’re like me and heading back to the classroom tomorrow, you’re as ready as possible for who knows what this year will throw at us 🙂 My county is currently ranking high on the COVID cases growth chart for the country – NOT a chart you want to see your county on – and we’re going back face-to-face.? Please send all the prayers, positive vibes, and best wishes that we’re all SAFE and HEALTHY during this school year! All throughout remote learning and summer vacation, I’ve seen the emergence of Bitmoji classrooms and, while they’re not everyone’s cup of tea, we can probably agree that they’re pretty darn creative! With the appearance of Bitmoji classrooms, coupled with the increase in use of Google Classroom for remote, face-to-face, and blended learning, I’ve seen a few posts questioning the use of Google Classroom or Google Sites for remote learning. Here’s my quick answer – I’m using both! Here’s how it works:
Google Classroom Google Classroom is the information hub for my students. I share announcements, readings, material, videos, and of course assignments. I use Classroom as a way to provide feedback to students on their work, and to easily access our coursework no matter where I am – I cannot TELL you how many times the Classroom app on my iPhone has saved my booty! This year, I will probably utilize the “invite guardians” option found in the People column, which is something I really haven’t pushed before, since I teach juniors and seniors and they very rarely, if ever, have homework. If we do end up in a remote learning situation, my hope is that the lovely email guardians get daily will prompt them to remind their learners of any activities and assignments they need to complete for class. Fingers crossed 🙂
Google Site So, how does a Google Site work? Do I even need it? All of my stuff is on Classroom. Do I need to put it in two different spots? Won’t that get confusing? These are ALL questions I’ve been asked over the last few months. While there’s no right or wrong answer – this is your classroom and your students, folks! You know best! – here’s what I’m including on my Google Site:
About the Teacher – I’m definitely including this on our course website this year because we didn’t get a chance to have our traditional Open House. Heck, we didn’t have one at all! While I don’t have TONS of parents and students show up for Open House, probably since they’re juniors and seniors, I enjoy the opportunity to introduce myself to my students and their parents. Even the 8 minutes they’re with me (yes, literally 8 minutes) provide me with the ability to lay the groundwork for open lines of communication and an awesome parent-teacher relationship. I missed that this year, so the About the Teacher page will have to suffice. I’ll be adding a video that parents can watch to this page, too 🙂
Course Syllabus – Yes, the syllabus is kind of a bore, but it’s definitely something that needs to be available to parents, admin, and community members! It’s there just in case anyone wants to take a look – though I doubt they do!
Course Info – On this page, I include my classroom Cell Phone Policy and a link to our daily objectives slide that parents can access throughout the year. I also include my Open House presentation that includes required materials for our class (earbuds and a Chromebook!) and information about how they can join our section of Remind.
Classroom Happenings – This is my FAVORITE page! This is where I can share pictures of my students completing BreakoutEDU activities, talking with people from all over the world through Google Meet, hanging out with our elected representatives, try MREs, and more!
Remote Learning – This page will probably be super important this year. While I sincerely HOPE we can all go back safely, the reality is it … I hate to be a downer … probably won’t happen for long 🙁 This page will be a resource for parents, admin, and community members about remote learning procedures and policies in my class.
So … long story short … yes! You can use Google Classroom and Google Sites simultaneously in your classroom! They’re both fabulous in their own right and can be super helpful when used together.
So if you choose to use a Google Site, what you want to do is set up your site so that when students click on the assignment button, it routes them back to Google Classroom, where they can pick up their individual copy and then easily submit it when they are finished.
It's a free suite of productivity tools that includes email, document, and file storage, designed collaboratively with teachers to help them save time, keep classes organized, and improve communication with students. Classroom can be used on various technological devices with internet access.
Google Site can be an excellent tool for teachers to communicate with parents. Teachers can create a page on the website that includes important information, such as contact information, school policies, and upcoming events.
First, make a digital lesson plan template using Google Slides. Next, add your plans. Link them to the digital unit plans. Finally, embed the lesson plans into a Site.
Google Classroom helps students: Enhanced Technical Skill: Regular use of the platform improves digital literacy, helping students navigate various online tools. Prepare for Future Endeavors: The digital skills they develop can benefit them in higher education and future careers!
Using Google Classroom is a great way to organize, structure and manage your classroom. It encourages paperless sharing and provides a platform for communicating with students. You can use Google Classroom to set, collect and even grade assignments. This simplifies the procedure and allows you to give timely feedback.
One major drawback is the issue of networking problems, which can disrupt the smooth flow of online learning activities. Additionally, Google Classroom may not encourage learners to share their work with their peers, limiting opportunities for peer feedback and collaboration.
Google Classroom is, without a doubt, great for remote learning, paperless assignment submission, and class updates. And reusing assignments and rubrics easily allows teachers more time to focus on student learning.
Google Sites lets you set different access lists for different pages of each site. You could use this to let a partner or vendor see only the relevant part of your project site or to built an entire intranet for your company with the right access for each division.
Google for Education is a set of digital products from Google. The tools are designed to be used for hosting and distributing digital documents, communication and collaboration through cloud-based technology, and can assist teachers, students, researchers and organisations – at all levels.
Teachers and students can use the Classroom app on Android and iOS mobile devices. The Classroom app is not currently available for Windows mobile devices.
Website owners and content developers can use the Classroom share button to let students and teachers share content back to Classroom. All API and Classroom share button integrations should follow the Classroom brand guidelines.
Faculty members can use Google Sites as a way to present and share resources related to their courses, for instance by creating pages for related course materials that lead students through the narrative of how they're related.
Students cannot create new sites without your school or grade level can going through a process to have Google Sites fully enabled for students. Google Sites can be a powerful tool that students can use to build digital portfolios or to publish their work.
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