Getting our Blogs up and running!!

Now that we have our class finally settled and the class size is down to a comfortable 27 grade 8 students, it's time to get our blogs up and running.  We've had a lot of problems with gmail since they think we are spam.  Hopefully we will get this figured out very soon.  It will be a lot easier now since the numbers are a lot lower.  If you still don't have both a gmail account and a blogger account, follow the directions below when you are at home:

1. go to gmail using the google search engine and sign up a new account.  To make it easy, when you are picking a username and a URL. Be sure to keep it all the same.  Use your first name and follow it with fairhaven.  An example would be jordanfairhaven and your gmail account would be jordancatton@gmail.com .  This is to keep it easy for both myself and you.  Also be sure to pick a password you won't forget.  I would use the same password for both gmail and the blogger website.
2. After you have your gmail account, go to http://www.blogspot.com/ and sign up for an account.  Be sure to use the same name for your blogger account as you did for your gmail account.  If you do that it shoud read your first name followed by fairhaven .  An example  would be http://www.jordanfairhaven.blogspot.com/ .
3. Lastly, go to my blog by typing in the URL http://www.cattonteacher.blogspot.com/ .  When my blog comes up, click the button Follow.
4. Start making your blog to best suit your academic needs.