Creating Google Sites

I have been working on creating a template for teachers to use when in 2022 our kura starts using Google Sites as a whole-school website.  Although I have spent many hours developing the class template I have enjoyed working collaboratively with members of the senior leadership team and also Meryn and Fiona (our Manaiakalani Facilitators).  We have decided for our kura that we wanted a uniform approach.  I know some teachers will be feeling restricted by this approach, however, I encouraged them to be as creative as they want with what they upload to their classroom site, ie using a multimodal approach; images, videos, etc...  Here are the steps I took in creating the classroom template:

1. Researched and decided on a font style and size, we chose Helvetica Neue Normal.  
2. Used Digital Colour Meter to find the Hex numbers of our school logo so I could colour match the green and blue;
   

3. Created a Google Site template, using Room 21's site as a guide.

4. Decided on the font size for the titles.  I choose to use the preloaded sizes (ie 96, 72, 60..)  and decreased the font size when moving through the website pages. Ie front page title was 96, then 72 for subpages. 

5. In Google Drawing I created master blue and green buttons.  These are for the staff to make a copy of and add to their websites. 

          
   
   

6. Once all the templates and masters were ready I present this new learning on call back day in October. 

During the call-back day, teachers split into two groups; beginners and intermediate. Meryn and I took the beginners and Fiona the intermediate group.  Other staff members who had done the Digital Fluency Intensive (DFI) stayed in the beginner group and also supported other teachers  I felt this was a great start to our Google Sites journey.