Getting started with a collaborative planning website

…Every user of your institution's Google Apps for…Education account has the opportunity to create Google sites.…Google Sites is a way to create a very quick template-based website.…Inside of the educational institution, these are…a great way to inspire collaboration, because a…lot of different people could be working on a single site at the same time.…In this chapter, we're going to use Google…Sites to create a school based collaborative website.…It's designed to help community members and staff…members collaborate on the creation of a community garden.…Lets go ahead and get started by creating the layout of our first site.…To get to sites, all we have to do is to log into…our Google Apps for Education account, and click on Sites in the upper navigation.…

To create our first site, let's click on the Create button on the left hand side.…As we create our first site, there's a couple things that we can do.…We can either start with a blank template.…Now, a blank template is not just a white page.…We can add some color and themes to…