1. Google, HTML, and More
Technology for Teaching and Learning
Summer 2009

2. Day 2: Google, HTML, and
More
❖ Continue signing up for accounts
❖ Discuss wordpress.com
❖ Blogging and teaching
❖ Google Docs and Google for
Educators
❖ Basic XHTML/CSS Web Site
❖ Introducing Ning
❖ And adding to the “Teaching
Tips” Wiki a long the way....

3. wordpress.com and Blogging
and Teaching
❖ wordpress.com Q&A and work
❖ Blogging and teaching
❖ Blogs as class management
❖ Blogs as portfolios
❖ Blogs as journals/annotated bibliographies
❖ Blogs as blogs
❖ Teaching Tips Wiki?

4. Google and Google for
Educators
❖ Google:
❖ Gmail, Reader, Calendar, Images, Books, Maps, Earth,
etc., etc.
❖ Google Docs, Picasa, Sites
❖ Google for Educators
❖ Teaching with Tech Tips Wiki: ideas?

5. Basic XHTML/CSS Web Site
❖ Setting up your people.emich.edu account
❖ SFTP software
❖ Working through the HTML Dog web site HTML and CSS
exercises (independently and with help)
❖ (Teaching Tips Wiki work, too)

6. One more thing: Ning.com
❖ Go to ning.com and sign up
❖ I’ll send you an invite to the class Ning site
❖ Log in and play around with it a bit....