Email and Blog Review - Part 1

Today was a great day of class! With a lot to learn about blogging, (notice how we even use it as a verb), we spent most of the class working on blogs. However, we started with a review of email. Since we're using the program Blogger to create our blogs, we have to have a Google email account (called Gmail). (Blogger is owned by Google, so your account works for both.)


Here are step by step instructions on logging in to Gmail...


Logging in to your Google email account (Gmail):

1.) Type "http://www.google.com" in the address bar at the top of the web browser. Hit "enter" on your keyboard.

2.) At the Google search engine, left-click on the "Gmail" link in the upper center/left of the page.

3.) At the Google account log in page, type in your username and password. Hit enter on your keyboard.

4.) This will take you to your email "Inbox." This is where you receive your emails that people send you. Left-click on the name of one of the emails to open and read it!


At our "Inbox", there were a couple emailed assignments I had sent everyone in the class. The first was to reply to the email by left-clicking the "reply" button, then typing a brief message, and left-clicking "send." The second assignment was to visit the class blog, "Exploring The Web," and leave a comment. We finished that assignment in class, and then worked on our individual blogs.

I'll give you step by step instructions for logging in to your own blog with my next post!