I made a site using Google Sites, and I wasn't too happy with the experience. I chose Google Sites because I had been exposed to it this Spring. One of my colleagues at school used a Google Sites template for the students to use. They used it to put together portfolios to showcase the work and progress they made over the school year. It seemed like a nice way to do that.
As far as using a template to make my own website, I found it to be very restrictive and not user friendly. I could not find a way to embed my Prezi that I made last week. It seems that I can only really embed things from other Google sites. I was unable to view the HTML of the page I was working with, instead I could insert an HTML box, but that box could not contain code to embed presentations or videos.
I made do with what was available and tired to put together a workable site. I think it could be a good jumping off point for me. I set up the site so that I could use it as a class website for my computer science class. I don't know if I will end up using it. We are moving to a new online learning management system (LMS) at school. From what they have been able to show us, it looks like it will be very versatile and user friendly, but I'm happy to have something started with Google in case our new LMS doesn't preform as advertised.
It was interesting to look through some of the sites at Live Journal. I posted to a few that I want to explore a bit more on my link sharing page.
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