In today's lecture we were introduced to the Accessing Knowledge course. In this lecture were we told about the course and gave us basics on:
- The outline of the course
- What we will be learning about and
- Requirements
The Tutorial
1. Firstly you need to create it at http://www.blogger.com/
2. Then choose a username, password, display name and tick the I agree box at the bottom. You then click continue underneath the agreement box.
3. You will then need to choose a blog title and a url name. Once you have checked the availability click continue to go to the next page.
4. The next step is to choose one of the blogger templates and then click continue.
5. You will then come to a page that says that you have now created your blog and then you click on the start blogging and are ready to start publishing blogs.
6. Blogspot will now be open in a new post setting (as blow) you may choose to start a new blog or you can explore the site by clicking the view blog or dashboard hyperlink.
- If you choose to start writing a new blog your first need to make a title (1) and then start writing in the big area underneath (2).
- Once you have finished with this always click publish post! Do not click save because it will not be saved onto the blogger site.
7. This is what your blog should look like once you have finished.
Task two: was to set was to set up an account at http://www.imageshack.us/. This was a very quick and ease process.
Step 1: Type in the link http://www.imageshack.us/ in the search bar at the top of the webpage.
Step2: At the top of the page (right side) there is a button (red box) with signup/login which you have to press to get started.
Step 3: Fill in the email address boxes and username to register your account.
Step 4: The next page will be there to tell you that your account has been registered and that there has been a notification email sent to your email with instructions on how to log into your new imageshack account. It will also have a registration hyperlink and a password.
Step 5: The hyperlink mentioned above leads you to your account at imageshack and that is where you can begin uploading images etc.
Reading summary
PC Lube and Tune
PC Lube and Tune is a service station which provides information about computer technology. It is a web site which has been produced by Yale university in America and the information that can be found includes tips for programing, negative and positives of the web and adding and removing applications into your computer database.
How Stuff Works
This web site provides particular information about the personal computer and how it all relates to eachother. It informs us about the main components of a computer and explains that all of these parts provide us with the ability to send emails, write documents, browse the Internet and play games. This web page has pictures (example below) and videos to help point out the mail parts of the computer so that if you have not use a computer or not sure of what the certain bits are called, you can learn them easily.
