"Googlios"

“Where free Google tools meet ePortfolios.”
https://sites.google.com/site/googlioproject/  2 min. introductory screencast

What is a Googlio?
https://www.sites.google.com/site/googlioproject/home/quotes-notes/myfirstdefinitionofgooglio

Goog•lio  noun (1) a hybrid next generation e-portfolio that utilizes emerging open, social, web2.0, and Google applications such as blogs, wikis, social networks and software to create a student created and controlled personal learning environment and lifelong content management system that can be shared and viewed from different perspectives, within various contexts, and for multiple purposes. 
noun (2)  a free and easy to use portfolio web site for individuals to design as a space, story, and system that functions as a workspace and showcase for learners to collect, select, reflect, publish, link, archive, and demonstrate knowledge, skills, reflections, through multimedia artifacts.   
verb (3)  "googlio it" to publish and connect a digital artifact to your webfolio. 
origin: rooted in the word folio (as in Da Vinci) + Google (as in all the free Google Apps & Tools) and evolved from portfolio --> electronic portfolio (e-portfolio) --> webfolio 

What is an ePortfolio?
https://www.sites.google.com/site/googlioproject/home/getting-started

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Ms. Zadeh’s advice:

Do this before you begin creating your Googlio:

•	Create 2-3 Google Site names and write them down.  Your first choice may be taken already!
•	Create some page names ahead of time.  Write them down.  Examples:  “My Journal” “My Videos”
•	If you want to put PowerPoints with audio into your Googlio, upload to SlideShare first.  Otherwise you will not be able to hear the audio in the Googlio.  
Sign up for free SlideShare account http://help.slideshare.com/forums/67630-Accounts-Usernames-and-Passwords

Advice:

•	Use “Announcement” page for a “Journal” page.  This has the elements of a blog (e.g. “comment”)
•	You are able change posts them from “bottom up” to “top down”.

Googlio Tutorials  
Screencasts by G. Alex Ambrose, Certified Google Teacher (approx. 10 mins. each)   
These are blurry in some places.  I could not find any other tutorials that I liked better.  If you find some, please contact me:  Victoria.Zadeh@evergreenps.org

Part 1      http://goo.gl/tzwvT

o	get to Google Sites
o	create a new site
o	name your site
o	choose a blank template for your site
o	privacy options of your site
o	editing your site, including site layout, uploading an image and adding a link

Part 2     http://goo.gl/Drk4e

o	Adding new pages to your site
o	Different types of pages you can add
o	Embedding a YouTube video
o	Embedding Google Docs and other files
o	Attaching files to your website

Part 3    http://goo.gl/vhQEo

o	More about creating links to different pages on your site
o	Managing your site in the site settings

Part 4  http://www.yourepeat.com/watch?v=fruaXoORHAQ&feature=youtube_gdata
NOTE:  This screencast’s sound does not work correctly.  If you find another link to it that works, please let me know:  Victoria.Zadeh@evergreenps.org

Information compiled by Ms. Zadeh, Teacher-Librarian   4/2013