Google Sites

Google Sites is a great way for all those non-techies out there to build a great website in very little time without any knowledge of html, stylesheets or javascript.

Saline is currently using Google Apps(mail, calendar, docs, sites, and videos) and I am excited about the opportunity to get everyone involved in building their own Google site. lately I’ve been switching all out PTO and extracurricular sites over to Google sites.

This has been a tremendous positive for keeping the site current and allowing easy access from anywhere for the person managing it.

Here a few well done sites from Saline:
Women’s Swim and Dive Team
Heritage PTO

Until next time,
Ken

Educational Sites

Since the start of school I have been talking to a lot of teachers and they have told me about many excellent website for use in education, so I thought I would pass them along here:

From Melissa Ervin:
factmonster.com is a great site
brainormous.com then go to multiflyer  – this is the only free game on this site/press play now

From Marcie Klump
www.starfall.com

From Lisa Latona:
www.audible.com
www.delicious-monster.com

From Staci Nazareth:
Click on any of the classroom resources listed on her home page:
http://sites.salineschools.com/users/nazarets/

From Ann O’Harris
del.icio.us

Citation help:
Noodle Tools www.noodletools.com (use the noodle bib express–it’s free)

Diane Hacker’s MLA Style: English and other Humanities http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/p04_c08_s2.htm

From Lori Black: www.teachertube.com

More to Come soon…