You will be able to use your electronic to complete some of your work.

We will be creating http://wordpress.com blogs that you will be able to

post to by sending an email OR downloading the Wordpress app.

If you do not publish work to your blog;

you lose the opportunity to use the device in class.

This is an experiment!! How you treat this freedom determines

whether or not we will use our devices in class.

Go to Wordpress.com and create an account and a new blog

• Go to Dashboard

• Then My Blogs • Be sure that

you have enabled Post my Email in Screen Options.

• Using this feature allows you to generate an email address that will automatically post to your blog.

The email subject is used as your post’s title. The body is the post’s contents. A few minutes after receiving your email, you should receive a notification email informing you of the published post’s details.

There’s an app for that!

• Wordpress has mobile apps for iPads, iPods, Androids, Blackberrys, Nokias and Window 7 phones.

• Download the app and create posts, add pictures, monitor comments, etc.

FAST FACT

Since 2005, the proportion of 8- to 18-

year-olds who own their own cellphone

has grown from 39 percent to 66 percent.