WK 4/6 | Web Publishing | Intro to Google Sites [1 of X]

Hello and Welcome to 
DLE Distance Learning

Week Four of Shelter In Place

Instrucciones en español

This week:

• This week we will be starting our web publishing unit. We will examine where and why we go online, look at some history of the Internet and the World Wide Web, and we will begin to create our own web publishing presence by starting a personal Digital Portfolio.

Announcements:

• You must attend one live learning experience per week per class
• No matter what you have heard school is now back in session for real
• You will need what we teach you now to be successful next year

Unit Learning Target(s):

• I will understand the origins of hypertext markup languages and their use
• I will understand the evolution and design of the internet both as a network and as a destination
• I will understand how logical information structures are determined and built using web technologies on the internet
• I will build an online Digital Portfolio that captures and presents both my academic work and my personal reality at this moment.

The Unit Syllabus can be found HERE 

Work Order for this week:

Step ONE: Reflect & Explore

• DUE: Past Due
• TASK 1: Answer the reflective questions on THIS GOOGLE FORM
• TASK 2: Use the Internet Wayback Machine to look at how web publishing has changed over the years
• Go to https://web.archive.org/
• Look for the Wayback Machine Search Box
• Enter Yahoo.com and hit return
• Click on 1997 (when Yahoo.com started)

                

• And choose the first snapshot on January 9, 1997

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• Compare that early version of the site with today's version of the site by clicking HERE
• Ask yourself these two questions as you compare the two versions
• What has changed?
• WHY do you think they changed what they did?
• TASK 3: Now chose one or more of YOUR favorite sites and compare what they looked like as they evolved over the years.
• Here's a few interesting ones
• Teen Vogue.com came and went over the years and then exploded
• BET.com used to be an entirely different company
• NIKE.com has gone through a LOT of changes

Step TWO: Connect & Discuss

• DUE: Past Due
• TASK 1: Join the CLASS ZOOM Wednesday @ Noon
• Discuss what you found on the Wayback machine
• What can we do today that we couldn't then?
• Did anything surprise you?
• What features might you want on your own website?
• Experience a mini-lesson and learn some more history about the Internet and the Web.
• Complete this exit ticket [if you didn't attend class you can still use the InfoGraphic linked at the top of the exit ticket to see the "notes" from the class]
• Extension to Task 1: READ This
• 10/09/06 Google to Acquire YouTube for $1.65 Billion

Come to Office Hours for help with Step 3!

Thursday 4/9 @ 1PM on ZOOM

Step Three: Create...

your own website on the Envision Academy Servers

• DUE: Friday @ 5PM
• TASK 1: Create an empty Digital Portfolio using Google sites
• Open Google sites
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• Switch to the NEW Google sites if your screen looks like this
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• Look for the rainbow + at the bottom right of the page to "create new site"
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• Change "Your page title" to be your FULL first and last name
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• Click Insert Text Box
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• Add some welcome text in the text box and play with the text styles
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• Name and Publish your site by clicking the "Publish"  button
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• Write your full name with no spaces
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• If your name is somehow taken add a hyphen or other unique character until it works BUT your name and only your name should be CLEAR in the URL
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• Click Publish again here


• If you get this page click publish again
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• Now click the down arrow next to the Publish button and choose view published site
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• Copy the URL 
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• Enter the URL into this Google form and you're done for the week.

Come back MONDAY after 4PM for the next Steps and Tasks!