My latest love-affair: Google Sites

I've admired Google for a long time now: giggling like a school girl at its quirky sense of humor, blushing at how deeply it understands the contents of my inbox, and trembling with inspiration every time I see its creativity and ingenuity in action.

A little while ago, I discovered a new side of Google called Google Sites, and my feelings grew stronger. Google Sites is a free tool that allows you to build an intranet for your group, with lots of storage, a simple way for everyone to edit and collaborate, a blog feature, a task assignment feature, and widgets galore.

As of today, I have 5 Google Sites: (1) the first houses my college group's discussions, blank forms, and resources; (2) the second keeps my writing group's writing, reader feedback, and notes in one place; (3) my third is for a project I'm coordinating with goals, assignments, meeting agendas, minutes, and to do lists; (4) the fourth holds class readings, notes, syllabus, and an about page for the instructor and each student; and (5) the last is a site I'll be using in the Fall in my Freshman Orientation class to house resources and information, discussions, FAQs, and assignments.

In short, the possibilities are endless, and like all true love, it is completely free. I'm sorry for my gushing, but I'm not sorry for the way I feel. Though I am kinda sorry that I posted the following photo:

Comments

[Steve Snedeker]

You're not alone here... I can't explain how much Google has helped make my life easier...

I have yet to play with Google Sites, but I certainly will check it out!!

I don't know if you utilize igoogle, but it allows you to take all aspects of Google and build your own personal page, I guess the best way to describe it is your Google dashboard...

For example I have my gmail, calendar, Google Reader, Twitter Updates, and Facebook updates... The uses for igoogle are endless, Google like any successful web 2.0 company allows for users to build their gadgets so it's not just limited to what google has produced!!

I plan on writing about this in my blog eventually so I will share the link when I do so :)

And once again Great Post!!

[Tania]

Hey Steve, yes I am a huge iGoogle fan. Oh the widget possibilities! I also have all my bookmarks on it, a useful little calculator (b/c I can't do math in my head), and a jott.com widget (for my to do list and for twitter updating). I look forward to reading your post about it. Just subscribed to your blog.