Google and Beyond

Hi everyone! Considering the cold weather outside, we managed to wake up and come to class. This is our first blog post at google blogger. Today was the first class of the Winter Term. Me and Christian decided to be in a group together for this class projects. In Today's class we have learned how to open a blogger account within Google. Our blogger address is chrisnori.blogger.com. However Chris had to sign up for a Google Account where they sent him a text message so that he can activate his account.


Professor Acland also made us sent an email to him so that he can get our Gmail Accounts. After that he sent us and email back with the syllabus provided in the Google Docs. We also chose the topic that we are going to be working on which will be Computer Security. We will find sources on how to prevent different computer vulnerabilities, protect information from intruders, protect the computer from viruses, network protection, encryption of information etc. At the end of the class we are required to make a presentation which is going to be 8 to 10 minutes long. For this we are going to use a google application for making slides. We are also supposed to post daily blogs in 300 words of length describing our class acitivities.


In todays class, we were also required to create an actual site from the sites.google.com which is another service that google offers to create simple web sites. After signing up for this one too, we had to customise the layout of the web page and choose the Professional Template so that it looks more professional. Our address for this page is http://sites.google.com/site/chrisandnori/. Feel free to check it out!

Google Books is another service that google offers for researching books. This service allows you to read books too, however not all of them let you read the whole book, they usually just have partial pages provided.

Greetings, from Chris and Nori!
Happy New Year and Merry Christmas!