Host Student Videos on Your Classroom Website

Just to piggy-back my last post regarding Google Sites, you can use your classroom website to host your student video products.  For school systems like ours, we are not allow to publish student work to YouTube.  We can, however, upload our student videos to Google Drive.

From Google Sites, we can pull from the videos we store in our Google Drive and host them on the classroom website for others to view.

Keep in mind: our school building Principals have to approve any publishing of video or digital content online to the public for student safety.  Let your Principal know about your interests.

Classroom Website

Establishing a classroom website is a great way to publish and share student work and content with other students as well as parents.  You can also empower your students by having them create their own webpage on your classroom site.  One easy way to make this happen is by using Google Sites.

We, SAD1, are a GAFE (Google Apps for Education) school.  So, we have access to many of Google's apps.  Every user has the ability to utilize Google Sites and create your own website FREE.  There are hundreds of video tutorials on YouTube that can help you learn the ropes and build a simple website to host your classroom publications and digital content.

I personally have worked with Google Sites extensively.  And have found them very easy to use and learn.  As far as web design goes, Google Sites may appear to be limited on how flashy it can look, however today's web design is all about simplicity and minimalism.  Look at Google's design practices.

According to Marzano Research, using a classroom website is a great way to celebrate success (element 3 of the Teaching Framework Learning Map)

If you have any questions or would like for me to help guide you in to creating your own classroom website, please feel free to contact me.