Principles of A/V Tech
Hello and welcome to P-ARTS!!This year we will be using Google Sites to publish and post your work, notes and assignments about the topics we will be covering this year. This will serve as a portfolio and a point of reference for future uses. You already have access to Google Sites via your school Google Account.
The following video explains in a very simple fashion how to create and edit a Google Site. Feel free to revise this video on your own if you need help when working on the site.
You will have the rest of the period to get your Google Site created. There are a couple of things you will need to do, including making the site shareable outside of AISD. I will write complete, step-by-step instructions below.
1. Create your home page - use the BLANK when you push the colored + sign. You can set your background image for the head to any image you would like, including images you might have taken. If you use the Google search function, please make sure you get an image that has no copyrights. If you use one of their images, you are fine.
2. Title you page in simple fashion. Your first name, the class name and period number. For example: Michael's Principles of AV Tech Site period 1. Do not use your last name. We will make these public, but we want to keep your personal information as protected as possible. Be aware of your digital footprint.
3. Once you have a title, it's time to add some content. Follow the directions on the video to create a text box. In that first text box, please write a one to two paragraph biography (100-200 words). Again, do not use your full name, and only share what you feel comfortable with. You are under no obligation to do anything you do not feel like sharing.
4. Please use the image function to add a selfie. Make it school appropriate. You will need to figure out how to upload an image, or take one using your webcam on your computer.
5. Add a new text box. Write a paragraph (50-100 words) describing why you signed up for this class and what you hope to learn this year.
6. Add a new text box. Write a paragraph (50-100 words) describing your previous experience with digital media, even if it is just taking fun photos with your phone camera. If you were on a publication in middle school, please tell me about that.
7. Create a new page. Title this page Welcome to my site. Add a new header image. Make it a subpage of your home page. We will do this for EVERY assignment, so please figure out how to do this, the video explains it fully.
8. On this page, please upload a new image. I don't care what the image is, as long as it meets two criteria. It is school appropriate and you took it. For this image, you need to take the photo NOW. Go take a photo and share it with me. It can be anything, but you must take it right now. Do not use an old image or one that you took in the past. Show me something fun, or something unique. You may use filters if you want.
Now it is time to share your page with me. Here are the exact steps to Publishing your Google Site and sharing it with me properly.
1. Once you have your work done, remember that Google has an autosave function, so your work is saved, but we want to publish it, so I can easily see it. Look at the top of your page, there should be a set of tool bars. Find the one that looks like a person with a + sign next to their head. Click that person.
2. In the pop-up box at the bottom of the page, find the words Links vary and click the word CHANGE.
3. Find the words Austin Independent School District and use the drag down next to us to change the sharing to PUBLIC. Click DONE.
4. At the top of the page in the tool bar, find the word PUBLISH. Click that button.
5. Change the web address to: First name, PARTS, period #. Example: Michael p-arts 1st. It should separate the words for you.
6. Check the box that says "Request public search engines to not display my site"
7. Click PUBLISH
8. Go back to the tool bar at the top. Find the drag down next to the word Publish. Click VIEW PUBLISHED SITE.
9. Look at the top of the browser window and find the URL bar. Click and highlight the URL and copy it.
10. Open your AISD gmail and compose a new email.
11. In the subject line type: My new Google Site.
12. In the body of the email: Paste the URL to your new Google Site.
13. The recipient is: mreeves1@austinisd.org
14. Click SEND and you should be done. I will update you next class that I have gotten your site and I will show you where and how I will use it.
