Digital Fluency Intensive - Session 5: Collaborate - Sites

In today's DFI session, we have covered Blog tips and Google Sites.

I frequently use Google Sites for our Team Toi Toi site, and have only learned what I know by having a play around with it, so there will be plenty more to learn. Before today I had never created a Google Site from scratch - I had only ever built onto pre-existing sites that someone else had made. By playing around with Google Sites I know how to create sub pages and buttons, and how to embed Google Slides etc. I currently have Reading, Writing and Maths buttons on my class site.

Here are the main points that I picked up from this session:

Blog 

• I have learned how to change the settings so that my live traffic feed and total page views are visible, and I have linked my class blog and class site to this professional learning blog. 
• I learned how to change the date/ time to NZ time, as I had noticed that it was showing the incorrect date and time when I created blog posts. I have also fixed this on our class blog. These tips were helpful, and I feel a bit more confident navigating the layout and settings of my blogs.

Google Sites

• Creating a site from scratch is really easy and can be done from in the Google Suite.
• I had never really scrolled down the tool bar to explore what other options and tools there were - so it was great to have a look and see what was there (such as image carousel)
• I explored the settings for the first time, and learned how brand images and logos can be inserted into the Site.

I have started to create a new site to have a play around with, which you can access here, and I will continue to apply my learning from today to my Toi Toi class site.