“Metaphor Website Tutorial”  
Transcript

[Opening screen shows an image of the ilearn brainhoney page for this course – opened to the ‘7.03 Mastery Performance: Metaphor Website’ page]
FEMALE: Welcome to the tutorial on how to create a metaphor website using google sites. The first thing you want to do is create a metaphor. To get an idea for the metaphor that you want to create, take a look at these example sites: ‘Nichol’s Educational Journey’, and ‘James Dunley; My Educational Voyage.’
[Mouse moves on the screen to show these hyperlinks at the bottom of the brainhoney page]
FEMALE: Your metaphor should be some kind of symbol to represent how you understand learning and teaching and the use of doctrines, principles, and tools.
[Image on screen changes to ‘James Dunley; My Educational Voyage’ page]
FEMALE: Create a metaphor that makes sense to you, and represents how you view learning and teaching. Once you have the idea for your metaphor in mind, go to sites.google.com. That’s S-I-T-E-S.google.com.
[Image on screen changes to show the sites.google.com page]
[Image changes again to show the google login page]
FEMALE: There you will enter the password for your Google account. If you do not have a google account, you will need to create one.
[Image changes once again to show the ‘Create your Google Account’ page]
FEMALE: Do this by going to accounts.google.com (forward slash) signup. You will see this page appear, asking for the following information: your first and last name, the e-mail address you would like to create for yourself, a password, your birthday and your gender, your phone number is optional, and so is your current e-mail address. Type in the letters of the image that you see here, agree to the Google terms of service and privacy polid-policy, and click ‘next step’. It will ask you to upload a photo of yourself, which is also optional, and then you are ready to use your google account.
[The mouse on the screen follows along the page as each above item is mentioned – showing you where on the page these items are located]
[Image on screen changes back to the sites.google.com page]
FEMALE: Once you have your account created, go to sites.google.com and click on the create button.
[She (our narrator) clicks on the screen the red create button located in the upper left corner, and the page changes to show the ‘create’ page on sites.google.com]
FEMALE: Here it will give you a few templates to choose from. If you don’t like any of them, click ‘browse the gallery’ for more.
[She clicks on the screen the ‘browse the gallery’ link and a white box pops up with more template options]
FEMALE: There are several to choose from. I’m going to choose one called ‘Garden 4 Template’.
[She clicks on ‘Garden 4 Template’, and an image pops up with a preview of the chosen template page]
FEMALE: Click on the blue select button when you have chosen your preferred template. You will then name your site whatever you wish.
[The screen goes back to the ‘create’ page, and in the text box provided in the middle of the page, under ‘name your site’, the woman narrating types in the title: ‘Kellie’s Learning Journey’]
FEMALE: This will automatically create a site location for you. If you want to change that you can do so without changing the name of your site. Type in the security code here, and click enter.
[She moves the mouse to the bottom of the screen where there is a security code box (in this example the security code is ‘ganastt’), and she types in the following letters: G-A-N-A-S-T-T, and then clicks enter.  Then the image on the screen changes to show her site page – it says ‘Kellie’s Journey’ on the top, and there is an image of Kellie on a horse beneath]
FEMALE: It will take you to your new site, which looks exactly like the template you chose. I have already updated my site, and I will show you how to do that now. To edit your site, click on the pencil icon here, that says edit page when you hover over it.
[The pencil icon indicated is located in the upper right-hand corner of the page]
FEMALE: If you would like to change the template image, delete the image and click on ‘insert’, selecting image from the options.
[A white box appears on the screen with different image adding options]
FEMALE: It will give you the option to either upload images from your computer, or provide a URL linking to the image that you would like to use. To upload from your computer click ‘upload images’.
[She clicks on the link down at the bottom of the white box, and a new window pops up with images to choose from the ‘Pictures library’]
FEMALE: Choose the image that you would like and click open. It will automatically update, and then when you select it, click ‘okay’.
[The image she selected appears on the screen]
FEMALE: If you are not satisfied with that image, you can click ‘remove’.
[She clicks ‘remove’, located underneath the image in the bottom right corner]
FEMALE: If you are satisfied with that, click ‘save’. Your template will likely already have a menu formatted for you. To change the name of these menu tabs, edit the page…
[She clicks on the same ‘edit’ button from before]
FEMALE: …and change the name here.
[She clicks on the word or tab that she wants to rename, and a box appears under it, which allows her to type in the new title or name for the selected tab]
FEMALE: You will need to save this before moving on to the next tab.
[She clicks on the blue ‘save’ button located in the upper right-hand corner]
FEMALE: Each tab will take you to a new page, but you can edit and add whatever information you’d like. Create a separate tab for your metaphor.
[She clicks on the various tabs to show how each leads to a separate page, and then clicks on her ‘My Metaphor’ page]
FEMALE: At the end of the semester, you will also be linking your final concept map to this website. If you would like to create a link within your own site, click on edit page.
[She clicks on ‘edit page’ and then scrolls down to an image in the middle of her screen, and clicks on the text beneath the image]
FEMALE: Once you have selected the text you want, make sure you highlight it, and click on the link option at the top tool bar. This will look like chain links.
[She does as indicated, and another white box pops up, titled ‘Create Link’]
FEMALE: If you would like to link this text into your own site, choose one of the pages from this list.
[She indicates the list of titles/tabs located under her site name on the ‘Create Link’ page]
FEMALE: I’m going to link it to my concept map. If you would like it to open in a new window when it is clicked on, select this box here.
[She indicates and selects a box in the bottom left-hand corner of the ‘Create Link’ page (just above the red ‘OK’ box]
FEMALE: When you’re finished click ‘OK’. If you want to remove it, click ‘remove’.
[She clicks ‘remove’, located at the bottom of the image she just linked]
FEMALE: If you would like to link this to an outside address, click on ‘web address.’
[She goes back to the ‘Create Link’ page and selects the tab ‘web address,’ located on the left-hand side under ‘Sites page’]
FEMALE: Here you will paste the URL to that website, and you can change the text you would like to display here.
[She indicates the text box provided at the top of the page titled: ‘Text to display’]
FEMALE: When you are satisfied, click ‘OK’. Save the page when you’re finished, and you will be able to view it as your viewers will see it. I have created a link here that takes me to the ‘Doctrines, Principles, and Tools’ part of my menu.
[She clicks on the link she created earlier underneath her photo in the middle of the page, and it takes us to the ‘Doctrines, Principles, and Tools’ part of her menu]
FEMALE: Your site should be simple and easy to navigate for those who visit. The most important thing is that your metaphor is well thought out and clear. When you feel that your site is ready, copy the URL, return to the page where you will be submitting this assignment on ilearn, click open, and it will give you a place to paste your web URL along with any comment that you have for your instructor.
[She returns to the page in the very first slide, and indicates all the items/steps mentioned above]
FEMALE: When you have done this, click close and your instructor will then be able to see your website. If you have any questions about what this metaphor assignment entails, or how to create a website on Google sites, contact your professor or your peers for more help.