Monday, February 11, 2008

First IT lesson with Mrs. Lindsay

Today was our first IT lesson with Mrs. Lindsay, after the classes of DT. She taught us a lot about certain websites that we will be using throughout the year, such as this website, which we will be using to write our process journals in. First, we went up to the white board with our chairs, and she introduced us to a website called http://www.qataracademy-it.wikispaces.com/. After entering this website, we had to click on a section called "Getting started". After looking at this, Mrs. Lindsay showed us a short video on youtube about a website called Del.icio.us. This short video gave us a lot of information about this website, and will really help in the future because it taught us a lot of stuff. For example, it taught us how to favorite certain websites, so that you can just enter a website with just a click, rather than typing in the URL in the adress bar everytime you want to go on that website. However, we can always also use a website called http://www.delicious.com/, where you can save all of the URLS. After watching the youtube video, and discussing "delicious" with Mrs. Lindsay, she introduced us to another website http://www.blogger.com/. This is the website that we will be using to keep our process journals in. It is also used as a social network. After this, our instructions were to go on to Mozilla Firefox, and enter the two websites, http://www.delicious.com/, and http://www.blogger.com/. On these two websites, we had to create our own accounts, so that we could use them every class in IT. Since Mozilla Firefox was not working for me, Mrs. Lindsay told me to use the Internet Explorer instead, and hopefully it would work out for me next class. The main purpose of "blogger" is to create a blog every lesson, which is basically a short process journal, so that every class we can refresh our memory on what we learned last lesson, since we have IT only twice a week. Even though it was onl the first lesson, we learned quite a lot!

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