HELP! I need to know how to even use this Blog/Glog/Internety Thing and Stuff!

So last week we as a class experienced a crash course in using internet technology in our classroom. Now let's figure out how to actually use all this stuff. By the end of today's class everyone will have their own Google Account and class e-mail address, everyone will have posted at least one comment on our class blog, everyone will know how to open and submit a Google Document, and everyone will know where and how to find their homework assignments on our class blog.


TASK ONE
To make a Google Account go to www.gmail.com and click "Create an account" in the top right corner. Fill out the form as follows:

First name: Your first name
Last name: The first initial of your last name
Desired login name: Your first name first initial of your last name lions example JohnSLions
Password: something that you will remember!

Security question: choose something that you will remember!
Recovery email: lionslanguagearts@gmail.com
Location: United States
Birthday: Enter January 1, 1990
Word verification: Type in whatever is in the box

Click the "I accept. Create my account." to accept the terms of service and make your account. YAY!

Now you have a Google Account. It is very important that you write down this information on your handout because this is how you will be able to get to our class information.


TASK TWO
Now we will learn how to use Google Documents. At the top of your Gmail window there will be a tab that says "Documents." Click on the tab and a new window will pop up called Google Docs - Home. In this new window there will be a tab that says "Create." Click this tab and then click the option "Document."

A new window will open and it will be a Google Document! This is going to be the way that we as a class submit some of our homework assignments. For this first document. Write a few sentences about yourself. Tell me your name, where you are from originally, what your favorite color is, what you want to be when you grow up and why this is what you want to be. Once you have typed this information into the document give it a title at the top of the page. Write the title as YourName_First Document.

Now we will learn to "Share" a document to submit it to the teachers. On the right of the window click the blue "Share" button. Under "add people" type in lionslanguagearts@gmail.com then click "done." You have now submitted your assignment to me!


TASK THREE
Now let's go back to the blog and learn how to submit comments from our Google Account. When you are already logged in to your Google Account you don't have to post things anonymously anymore. Now go down to the bottom of this post and click where it says "# comments." This will bring you to another page that has a blank comment box at the bottom. In the comment box write a minimum of two sentence response to the following questions: (Remember to use complete sentences!)

What was your favorite activity that you ever did in a Language Arts class in your past?
What is your favorite book that you ever read?


TASK FOUR
Click on the link to our Today's Meet and get out your books and turn to Chapter 15.
http://todaysmeet.com/llachapter15