1. How to Use Google Sites …to create an Electronic Portfolio

2. Access the web site: www.google.com/sites

3. Click “Sign up for Sites:

4. Create a Google Account- Google Sites

5. Supply the Required Information…be sure to “Enable Web History”

6. Google will send an Email Verification

7. Check your email…

8. Find the link in the body of the Email

9. Follow the link

10. The Email address is verified…select “click here to manage your account profile”

11. You may update your Personal Settings…or view your Web History

12. Select “Sites” to visit sites you have built

13. Access www.google.com/accounts/Login on subsequent Logins

14. Enter your Email address and Password to continue (you might want to de-select the “Remember me on this computer checkbox”

15. Select “Sites” to begin to build your Electronic Portfolio

16. Select “Create site”

17. Name your site “_ _ _702elecport” with the underlines representing your intitials (Be sure to record the url of your site.)

18. Write a description, substituting your name for “George Bagwell” in the Site description

19. Select “Only people I specify…” under Share with

20. Choose a Site theme…you may broaden your choices by selecting the More themes hyperlink

21. Select a Site theme

22. Type the code shown (which improves security of your site) and click Create site

23. After a short time, your site will appear. You are ready to Edit page

24. Edit your page, including information as shown below (substituting your name for “George Bagwell”)

25. Be sure to Save often…

26. Space down underneath the page heading and Insert a Horizontal Line

27. If you select the center justify icon, your work will be centered

28. Insert a table with 2 columns and 14 rows below the horizontal line

29. Enter text into each of the first column of cells to identify the various artifacts that you will create in EDUC 702

30. Add additional rows, with 2 columns into the table…to match the number of artifacts

31. Select the table, and drag it to the center of the page

32. To the left of the page, click on Sitemap

33. To the left of the page, click on Edit sidebar

34. Select Attachments from Site content

35. Click on Upload

36. Browse to the folder location where the attachment is stored…this should be in a folder with all of your Piedmont documents from EDUC 702

37. A dialogue box will open so that you can Choose File

38. You might have to migrate to the directory where your files are stored…it should be a directory called “Portfolio”…select the document that you wish to upload

39. Click on Upload

40. Once you have returned from the Upload, right-click on the file name you choose to post

41. Select Copy Shortcut from the menu that opens

42. Click on Return to site

43. Click inside the box where you would like to place the attachment

44. Once the document link is placed, be sure to Save your work

45. You can preview your work from the More actions menu

46. You can also “dress up” the site from the Insert menu

47. Insert a link to another site

48. Once you have finished be sure to share the site with...select Manage site from the More actions pull down menu gbagwell0731@lions.piedmont.edu

49. Select Sharing from the left sidebar menu

50. Once you have typed the email address in the open box, be sure to click on the as viewers radio button, and uncheck the Anyone in the world … checkbox

51. Select Invite these people

52. You may send a message with your email that notifies the viewer, then click send