Blog+Setup+Instructions

 

USE SAFARI FOR THIS – NOT FIREFOX!!
> EX: shapowell@mail2.cms.maisd.com > EX: Shannon’s Reading Journal > EX: http://www. shannonsreadingjournal .blogspot.com
 * 1) Go to your school email account. (mail2.cms.maisd.com ) Your email address is the first three letters of your first name and your whole last name, then @mail2.cms.maisd.com
 * 1) Password is your lunch #.
 * 2) Open the Google invitation and click on the link (the long one).
 * 3) Click on “Create an account now”.
 * 4) Enter the same email address as above.
 * 5) Your password is your initials and school ID. EX: smp10101
 * 6) Display name is JUST your first name/ no last nameS.
 * 7) UNCHECK the “Send me feature announcements”.
 * 8) Type in the weird letters.
 * 9) CHECK “I accept the Terms of Service”.
 * 10) Click CONTINUE.
 * 11) Re-enter your password (initials and school ID #) and click on “Accept Invitation”.
 * 12) Click on “View Blog”. Read what I have written.
 * 13) To create your own blog: Click on “Dashboard” at the top right of your screen.
 * 14) Click on “Create a Blog”.
 * 15) Your title will be your name and “Reading Journal”
 * 1) Use the title as the URL with NO SPACES
 * 1) Choose a template and click continue.
 * 2) Click on “Start Blogging.”
 * 3) Write a short paragraph on your reading habits lately. Be honest! I’m not grading you on whether or not you’re reading, but I AM grading you on doing the blog! Use the same format you used when we had the reading journal notebooks.