Class 2 Notes (notes are in progress and are subject to change)

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Choose your computer for the semester at the beginning of class

Introduction and Outline:

• Discourse

• TLearn - can you see your grade entries?

• Delicious - review and expand

• Blog Updates

• Network Folders

  • Class

  • Groups

• Shortcuts

• Screen Shots - if there is time

• Homework

 Reading Review

Introduce Discourse (131.194.71.230)

• Click icon on desktop.
• File > Logon via IP > 131.194.71.230
• Teacher can see your responses to questions as you type them

Minimize Discourse

TLearn

Review Delicious

You will be adding three new links to your favorites. Share your username with someone next to you and check out each other's links under the people tab. Check out your tag cloud.

Editing and Customizing Your Blog

Hyperlink your email address>: <a href="mailto:usrname@trinity.edu">Email Me</a>

How to add a photo to your profile (sidebar)

1. Upload a photo to your blog photo
2. Pair up and critique each others' blogs. Look at the introductory entry as if you are a professor or employer looking for an intern or new employee to hire. You will have ten minutes to make any changes to both blogs (edit text, change language, add elements, etc). USE the SPELLCHECK!

Accessing and using Network Drives

Copy 2Practice from Class to Groups by typing \\tucc-tiger\Groups\ComputerSkills\Belisle\ in run window

Read document in practice folder - it is important!!

Create shortcuts

Shortcuts - Use help menu in Windows and look in the index for creating shortcuts.

• A shortcut is a quick way to start a frequently used program or open a file or folder without having to go to its installed location.
• If you want to create a shortcut to a folder, right-click the folder, and then click Create Shortcut. This creates a shortcut to the folder you selected. To move the shortcut, select it, and then drag it to a new location.

Create a shortcut to class folder jbelisle on N drive and move it to your users folder on Y.

• Open 
   
• Open
   
• or Start >> Run >> \\tucc-tiger\class
• Rt-Click  (not left) on your instructor's Class folder
   
• Left-Click Create Shortcut
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• Click Yes
  
   
• You should see Shortcut to the Class folder on desktop. You should see arrow on icon.
  
   
   
• Click and drag Shortcut to the Class folder to your Y drive.
  
  
   
• Open Y drive.
  
  
  
   
• Click shortcut to be sure it works. 
       
  
  
   

 Use shortcuts to copy 2scavenge from Class to shared folder in Groups

Scavenger Hunt Assignment (20)

1. In your shared (Groups)folder in \\tucc-tiger\groups\ComputerSkills\Belisle\ there is a folder named 2scavenge with your class time.    

2. Open the folder, open the file in the folder, and answer the questions. To answer the last question, you will first need to leave comments on two of your classmates’ journal entries. Please choose entries that do not already have two comments; then copy and paste the URL of the blog where you left the comment. For example, if you left a comment on Ms. Belisle’s journal entry, the URL would be: http://www.lynbelisle.blogspot.com

3. Save the document inside the 2scavenge folder.

Note: Please make sure you have your textbook by the next class

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