Blogger

I have several "house keeping" items I need to go over before we start working in class.

1. You will be allowed to exit the classroom for the bathroom twice during the semester; and you will also be allowed to go to your locker twice during this semester.  Each time you go, you need to take a form with you.  When you return you will need to fill it out and put it in the gray tray on my desk.  Each pass is an extra credit point at the end of the semester, so if you do not use them you will get extra credit.




2. We will be starting next week with a seating chart - just thought I'd let you know.
3. Accessibility rules - no chatting (in Gmail or any other place), no games (that includes embedding them on your blog - and the fish swimming around eating fish food is a game), use the software programs I ask you to use, nothing else.  You should not be on any websites that you are not told to be on.  Searching in Google when you have been told to be on the class blog is a violation of classroom rules.  

First thing today will be to learn the O and the T keys on the keyboard.  As we continue to learn new keys we will always be reviewing the rest of the keyboard.


Today we are going to create your blog on Blogger.  This is the same website that hosts the class blog, so it should look very familiar.  The purpose for creating your blog is many-fold.  Some of what we are going to be doing is learning to correctly use a blog.  But we will also be posting assignments on your blog, and we will also be keeping a weekly journal on your blog as well (this is something we will be doing this week, in fact).  We just covered the Computer Lab Policy, so you should know exactly what you can and can't do.  In any case, the blog will become an important aspect of what you accomplish in this class.  By the end of the semester you should be able to look back through your blog posts on your blog and see many of the things that you have accomplished throughout the semester.  If we have time today we will create a new page on your blog - this page will host your weekly journals.