Email Agendas Revisited

Ok, the time has grown short, so let's see if I can't get us up to date in this post, and at least leave a teaser of what's to come! I've been editing the previous posts on our ETW blog, and I've tried to clarify the explanations and step by step examples. It took some time but I hope they're more clear. On to the very recent past, Thursday, October 29th, and the email lessons we've had in class, so here we go...

Email Agendas (Almost)

We've gone through two classes since the last post, classes on Thursday, October 22, and 29, and we are now into the month of November! October went by fast, and we have a lot to learn! We moved away from blogs toward the end of the month, and finished talking primarily about email, but before I get to that...

Here's a Recap...

The Blog Posting Past and The Upcoming Email Agenda

 Last class was Thursday, October 15, and the main topic was blog settings, specifically publishing posts. After everyone signed in to their blogs, we talked about the area you immediately see, which Blogger calls the Dashboard. We spent some time learning about the Dashboard, so...

E and B Review In Brief

The current topics can be broken into two parts:

1.) Email.
2.) Blogs.


1.) Email:
We talked about email use with Google, including:
> Creating an email account with Google (Gmail).
> Logging in to Google's Gmail accounts.
> Opening email messages received in the Inbox.
> Replying to email messages that have been read.

2.) Blogs:
We learned about blog use with Google, including:
> Creating a blog account with Google (Blogger).
> Logging in to Google's Blogger accounts.
> Viewing your blog from your Blogger account Dashboard.
> Publishing a blog post from your Dashboard.

There was more (such as uploading pictures to our blogs), but those were the two main topics. More to come on the next post, as well as a preview of the next class!
Cheers!

Email and Blog Review - Part 2

This post covers some other aspects of what we did in class October 8, 2009.
Besides creating an email account with Google, we also signed up with Google's service called "Blogger," to create our own blogs. (To review how to log in to your Google email account, scroll down and read the previous post "Email and Blog Review - Part 1." )
We practiced getting to our blogs, selecting a blog style from the templates they provide, writing our first post and publishing it onto our blog, as well as uploading a picture to publish onto our blog. It was a fun class!

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!