Saturday, June 25, 2011

Assignment 3--Google Sites

Google sites makes creating a website for business or pleasure simple for an experienced web developer or a novice.  With Google's design templates a developer can insert pictures, video, and text with the click of a mouse.  A creator can also incorporate existing documents stored in Google Docs quickly and easily by placing them on a website and making them public or placing permissions on the links.

This assignment was probably one of the most challenging assignments for me in the course.  Mainly, because I had never worked with Google sites prior to this.  The tutorials and videos provided valuable information in how to develop a site.  As I continued to work with it more and more it became quite easy to use, and to get the site to cooperate with what I wanted it to do.

Google sites would definately be something that I would want to employ in my computer concepts courses.  The design aspect would be a great critical thinking activity to build upon web design techniques and formatting. 

In terms of designing my own course site for the courses that I teach online; I am not in favor of using Google Sites.  I felt limited in many ways with presenting the course material during the development of the site.  It may have been my limited experience in working with Google sites, but I like the course managment software of Blackboard better in terms of teaching.

My website can be viewed at: 

https://sites.google.com/site/csc1113apayne/

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