Friday, January 6

Short week comes to an end

Despite the fact that we have only had 3 days of school this week, we have accomplished much in Computer Applications.  By the end of today everyone will have a Gmail account, and you will have already learned 1/3 of the letters on the keyboard.

Today the first thing we are going accomplish is that we are going to have everyone send an email to their parent(s)/guardian(s) (except 8th hour - you will be creating a Google account first).  Once you get logged in to the computer, log into your Google account.  Go to your Gmail account - you should see several links across the top of the screen - you want to click on Gmail.

On the left hand side you will see a button labeled "Compose" - click on it.


In the "To:" field type in your parents' email address.  If you're not sure I can help by looking on Skyward.

In the "Subject" line type in "Hello from Computer Applications class".

In the message box, copy the information that I have given to you below and paste it into your message box.  If you are not sure how to copy and paste, please let me know so I can help you get that done.  Here is what you need to enter in your message box:

Dear mom/dad/other:


I am sending you this email from my Computer Applications class to let you know that we have created a new Google account in class this week, and today we are sending our first email!  


In addition, Mr. Pardoe wants me to inform you that he has some important information to share with you regarding my Computer Applications class.  You will need to go to the following website to read this information - http://gmscomputerapps.blogspot.com/p/parent-letter.html


If you have any questions you can contact him at dpardoe@dist228.org.


Your favorite son/daughter,


Darth Vader


After entering your message you should always double check to make sure everything is correct.  Once you have done that, go back to the top (above where the "To:" field is) and you'll see a button labeled "Send" - click on it and off it goes!


Once we get this accomplished we will continue to learn and practice the keyboard.  Today we will add the H and E to the home row keys.

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