How to create GMAIL and Edmodo account

Click here for steps to create a Gmail account.

To create Edmodo account:

Students will  need to (this is only if student has never created an Edmodo student account):

1. Visit www.edmodo.com and select the “I’m a Student” button.
2. Fill out the registration form with the group code, a unique username and password. An email address is not required for student signup.
3. Select the “Sign up” button to complete the signup process. The student will then see the group you created on the left sidebar.

Note: If a student already has an Edmodo account, the student does not need to create a new account to join a group. Once a student has created an account, the student can join multiple groups with the single account.

Then, if the student already has an Edmodo account, the user will:

1. Login to his/her account.
2. Click “Join” next to groups on the left side of the homepage.
3. Type in the 6 digit group code in the pop up box (this is the code the owner of the group must provide you with) and click “Join”.

Just For Fun

Guess What?

1. What does WWW mean?
 > World Wide Wait

1. What is a computer virus?
 > A terminal illness

1. What is an astronaut's favorite key on the computer keyboard? 
 > A space bar

1. What happened after the computer fell on the floor?
 > It slipped a disk

1. How do you know your computer is getting old?
 > It keeps losing its memory

Improve Your Typing Skill

Typing skills helps you master many other skills needed in today's computer oriented world. The faster you can type the lesser time you would need to finish your tasks. There are various kind of ways we can applied in order to improve our typing skill and one of it is practise. Thus you may click on links as follow:

• Type Online
• Typing Web.com
• Typing Test

Enjoy!

Fun Facts: Do You Know?

1. Bill Gates is the founder, former chief executive and current chairman of Microsoft, the world’s largest personal-computer software company, which he co-founded with Paul Allen.  


2. Steve Jobs was best known as the co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Apple Inc. He died on October 5, 2011 (aged 56) because of cancer. 


3. Larry Page and Sergey Brin are the two masterminds behind the world’s largest search engine; Google.com, and it was developed as a project during their graduate studies at Stanford University. 


4. YouTube was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim. It began in 2005, after they had experienced difficulty sharing videos that had been shot at a dinner party at Chen's apartment in San Francisco. 


5. The two founders of Yahoo!, David Filo and Jerry Yang, have started their guide in a campus trailer in February 1994 as a way to keep track of their personal interests on the Internet.  


6. Mark Zuckerberg is best known as one of five co-founders of the social networking site, Facebook. He is best known as the chairman and chief executive of Facebook, Inc.  


7. Tim Berners-Lee, is a computer scientist and the inventor of the World Wide Web.


8. Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey. The service rapidly gained worldwide popularity, with over 500 million active users as of 2012; over 340 million tweets daily.

Just For Fun

Fun Facts: Do You Know?

1. The computer mouse was invented by Doug Engelbart in 1963. It was made out of wood.
2. It took the radio 38 years and the television only 13, but the internet reached 50 million users in only 4 years.
3. HP, Google, Microsoft, and Apple have one thing in common – apart from the obvious that they are IT companies. They were all started in garages.
4. A Bit stands for "Binary Digit" a Bit can hold only one of two values 0 or 1.
5. The personal computer runs 400 times faster than the main frames of 30 years ago.
6. In 1998, 9.4 billion E-mail messages were sent per day.
7. The first computers were huge machines that took up whole rooms.
8. Apple is credited with having the first successful computer with a mouse attached.
9. A central processing unit is sometimes called the brains of a pc. The faster your cpu is, the quicker you computer is.
10. William Henry Gates III is Bill Gates real name. He changed it early in life simply because it was easier to say.

Just For Fun!

How It Works: Technology of Touch Screen

Touch screen Technology has sparked the explosive growth of the mobile device market nowadays. It started not so long ago with PalmPilot where we can tap on the screen with a tiny stylus, or exercise our thumbs on a BlackBerry micro-keyboard.

Later on along came the iPhone and then everything changed. Suddenly, people were wiping their fingers across screens, pinching images and performing other stuff that had not previously been part of the smartphone interface.

Now we not only take touch input for granted, we expect to be able to use multitouch (using more than one finger on the screen at a time) and gestures as well. Thus, how it works basically?