Creating an Account & Rules

Our class blog can be found at the following address:

http://fishingforintelligence.blogspot.com/
My email account for the class blog is as follows:
mrmckennartf@gmail.com

CREATING YOUR ACCOUNT

When you create you account, bear in mind that the account you are using for this class has the specific purpose of being used simply as an extension of our class at RTF. (You can create as many Google accounts as email names you can think of. So, I’m not taking anything from you by asking you to create specific accounts.) All the rules that we have at R. T. apply on the blog, so, for example, be respectful of everyone, keep in mind that you should reflect the maturity of your level in our program as you interact with others on the blog (so a Level 4 student will have higher expectations than a Level One, even though we have high expectations for all students), etc.

That being said, I want everyone’s privacy kept private. So, when you create this account, I want you to create a fictitious name that others will not recognize. So, everyone will choose a color as their name with “rtf” at the end of it. Colors will be a first come/first serve basis. REMEMBER: I want “rtf” to be the last letters of your displayed name. So, for instance, if you decide to call yourself “Blue” as a user name (also called the display name), then your full name would be:

Bluertf@gmail.com with your user/display name being "Bluertf."

Here is a list of a few colors to choose from :

Blue / Green / Red / Orange / Teal / Brown / Fuschia / White / Violet / Yellow / Purple / Pink

Here are 50 more:

http://www.crayola.com/colorcensus/americas_favorites/index.cfm

I think you all get the idea. If you find all colors seem to be chosen (trust me, they’re not; there are lots and lots of colors), go look through a box of crayons and find one that hasn’t been used yet.
THE FIRST STEP IN CREATING THE GOOGLE ACCOUNT IS, OF COURSE, CREATING AN EMAIL.

HERE IS THE LINK WHERE YOU START:

http://mail.google.com/mail/signup

EMAIL ME AS SOON AS YOU HAVE CREATED YOUR ACCOUNT AND TELL ME WHAT YOUR USER/DISPLAY NAME IS, WHAT YOUR EMAIL IS, ETC.

IF YOU ENCOUNTER ANY PROBLEMS, CONTACT ME.

I hope this will be fun and intellectually stimulating for everyone as we find ways to make the classroom experience collaborative.