Old Sites and New Sites--Like Night and Day

How I Use It

OLD SITES...I used the "old" Google Sites as a teacher page, and I also created an ePorfolio template through our domain to have students digitally warehouse the information they learned in my class. It takes a lot of time to setup these templates to your satisfaction, and students will struggle with the edit interface. In a 1:1 Chromebook environment, the interface to Drive works well, but be prepared to spend a lot of time working with students individually. NEW SITES: It's much easier to design "new" Google Sites, and they are significantly more visually appealing than the "old" version (think Weebly-esque). However, there's no ability to create and share templates, meaning that if you want to do the ePorfolio route with students, be prepared to do a direct instruction piece with students on devices. The "drag and drop" interface does work well to pull resources straight from drive, and the image search allows you to find royalty-free images to place on your site to add some aesthetics.