Your first assignment

Send me (sbenton@ecok.edu) an e-mail from the e-mail account you use most often (it doesn't have to be your school address).  Include the address of the blog where you have made your first post for this course (follow the steps below to set up your blog).

Due:  before class on Monday, January 10th.

How to set up a blog:
1.  Go to www.blogger.com
2.  Create a google account (use an existing e-mail account to register).
3.  Send me your password if you’re afraid you might lose it; I’ll be your password bank.
4.  Choose a recognizable “display name,” as in your actual first (and last?) name rather than a nickname.

Uncharted waters

5.  Once you’ve created a google account, click on the “create a new blog” link.
6.  The title of your blog can have spaces in it (and you can change it later).
7.  Your blog’s address (what goes between the “www” and the “blogspot.com”) cannot have spaces in it.  I recommend that you choose an address that will be easy for other people to spell when you tell it to them.
8.  The title and your address do not have to be the same.
9.  When choosing a template for your blog, think “readability.” In other words, avoid dark pink on a black background. (You can easily change your template later.)
10.  Once you’ve created your blog, click on the “start posting” link. Your first post may be as long or as short as you want it to be.
11. Need a subject? Try “On Exploring Uncharted Waters.” Describe your feelings about trying new experiences for the first time or about entering unfamiliar territory.

He just posted his first assignment.

12. When you’re finished with your post, click “publish.” Or click “save as draft” if you’re not ready for anyone to see it yet. Whether you publish or save your post as a draft, you can go back in and revise it later if you want to.
13. Clicking on “new post” in the upper right hand corner will take you back to the dashboard. Once there, you can change some of your settings. Click on the “settings” tab. Then the “formatting” tab. Change the “time zone” to “(GMT-06:00): Central.”

14.  When you've done all this, send me a celebratory e-mail, or preferably, a short video of you doing a celebratory dance.  But the e-mail is OK, if you don't want to do the dance video.