User accounts

This blog is an important part of the work of this elective, and I am expecting everyone to post to it frequently and also to respond to what you see here. This produces a very useful record of our activities this semester. I would like everyone to jump in and learn what you need to know to get the most benefit from this resource. I have posted a bunch of instructional messages dealing that you may find helpful. Please take a look at these.

To use the blog, you do not need a Gmail account, although it is a very useful thing to have, and will give you access to many of Google's amazing free online tools and cloud computing capabilities. You can easilty link your newschool.edu email to the Gmail one. To do this: go to www.gmail.com, and if you do not have a gmail account, click on "Create New Account". Once you have set up the account, link to your newschool.edu account by going to Settings, then click on "Accounts and Import". Where it says, "Check mail using POP3, click on the button labeled, "Add POP3 email account". Then, enter your "yourname@newschool.edu", and click "Next Step". You then need to enter your newschool.edu password. That's it. If you want messages that you send from your gmail account to look like they come from your newschool account, you can do that by clicking on "Send mail as" under "Settings".