Welcome!

Welcome to Mr. Weiss’ Journalism I class. Please, silently take your seat at a computer according to the seating chart.

Today, students will:

1. Learn to navigate a wordpress.com weblog
2. Get to know a little bit about everyone in the room
3. Learn the policies and procedures of Journalism I

Tonight’s homework is:

1. Print off a copy of the syllabus and bring it in tomorrow signed by a parent
2. Electronically sign the syllabus by posting your full name as a comment to the syllabus page
3. Get a valid personal email address (Free email accounts are available at mail.yahoo.com)

Please Do Now:

1. Log onto your computer (username and password are 7201student)
2. Open Internet Explorer and point your browser to weissjournalism1.wordpress.com
3. Make a “Name-A-Gram” for yourself in the comment box and post the comment.

EXAMPLE:

A A

N Nasty,

D Dastardly

Y Yankee

W Who

E Excels

I In

S Scaring

S Students