Today was our first class day in October! We're already into our second month in the Exploring The Web class of the Fall 2009 semester! It was our second day of learning about creating a blog using a blog hosting service offered by Google (called Blogger).We started our class asking very basic questions. What is the internet? How did it start? What is the web? What is a web browser? After discussing these questions, we began to learn about the web browser we're using for our class, Microsoft Internet Explorer (Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, and Opera are some others).
We also talked about different types of websites, including search engines (Yahoo!, Google, Bing, Ask, etc.), metasearch engines (Dogpile, Clusty, Mamma, Metacrawler, etc.), and ecommerce sites (ebay, craigslist, etc.).
Our last few classes have focused on free email accounts with Google (called Gmail), and creating our own blogs using Blogger. Before we started we talked about what email is (short for electronic mail), and what a blog is (short for weblog).
Email is a type of message transfer, used to send messages through the internet. Email is text heavy; you can send and recieve text messages and documents, and some images.
A blog is a type of website, usually maintained by an individual person, for commentary or news on a particular subject, or as a kind of personal online journal or diary. A blog is both text and image heavy; you can post messages, pictures, and other media on a blog.
This is the blog for our class, I hope you enjoy it, and continue to experiment with your own!
Until next time...
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Enjoying the class very much, looking forward to
"new vistas" to be open up! You can check out my blog at http://politics4poets-tome.blogspot.com
See You Tuesday: Tom E.
Blogger is a very interesting program, I like it very much.
I am grateful for your class. And I look forward to the next.
This is attempt #2 at posting a comment. Over and out. Gary
This blogging is fun. I just discovered that Microsoft Word does not recognize Blog as a word. It gives me a red underline each time I type it. Rather ironic but it just shows how fast our technology keeps changing!!!!!!!!!!
This seems to be very difficult for me. Your class is great
How are you?
This is the greatest class ever!
How are you?
Hi teacher Ihope you receive my coment
I love this class.
than you so much for your help
I hope to learn something before the class is over. Than U.
five pm i just located my rose blog now i can stop and watch tv tom
I am learning something new every time I come to class
Espero que esta vez si pueda recibir mi correo
gracias por la clase es muy interesante y gracias por su paciencia para todos nosotros.
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