Wednesday September 7th

Welcome to Communications Technology!

In this course I hope you will learn a lot and discover some new technology

STEP 1:
Activate your Rockway Google Account
1. To activate your Rockway Google account, go to www.Google.ca and click on Sign In.
2. Use "student id@student.rockway.ca" as your username, and "password" as your password.
3. Change your password to something that you will remember, and agree to the terms and conditions.

STEP 2:
Create a blog on Blogger.com

1. Once you are logged into your school Google account, go to Blogger.com.
2. Create a new blog. Have fun customizing it...please include your name in the blog title or description.STEP 3:
IMPORTANT!
Once you have published your answers in a post, please email the URL (web address) of your new blog to Ms. Matthews. 

Instructions are below:

1. Open a new browser or tab, and go to Google.ca.
2. Login to your account.
3. Click on the "Mail" link on the menu at the top.
4. Create a new message addressed to "traceym@rockway.ca" .
5. Cut and paste the URL from your blog into the message, and click "send".

STEP 4:

1. State your name, grade, country of birth.
2. Why did you take this course? What are your goals in this course? What have you heard about this course?
3. What experience do you have with digital photography? Do you have access to a camera? Explain.
4. Do you have any experience with photo editing? (e.g. iPhoto or PhotoShop) 
5. Have you ever created and edited your own videos? Please explain (what the video was, what programs you have used, was there audio involved, etc. )
6. Describe any experience you have with graphic design (e.g. Adobe Illustrator/inDesign or similar programs). 
7. What platform are you most familiar with: Mac or PC?
8. What do you spend most of your time doing online? Please describe.

If you finished all of this, you can spend some time modifying your blog by:

• adding some information about YOU in your profile 
• changing your blog template/adding gadgets/uploading images