Intro-01

Learning Outcome

At the end of this lesson, you will be able to:

• log onto a school computer

• log onto and send an email from your new @mths.ca school Gmail account, using a Chrome browser

• connect to this course's Google Classroom and submit your work to it

Lesson

• watch the video, Why you should learn to code

• go over this course website

  • all lessons for the course can be found on this website

• go over Computer Use Policy (see file below: ↓)

• go over ICS3U Ministry Expectations (see file below: ↓)

• go over Using the Computers and Asking Questions (see file below: ↓)

• ENSURE you are always using a Google Chrome Web Browser for everything in this course

  • many websites we will be using were designed to specifically use Chrome, so please ensure you are using it!

• go over the login and password to your new @mths.ca Google account

Activity

• log onto a computer

  • the computers in Room 212 now have ChromeOS, so login just like a Chromebook, but with your @mths.ca login

  • your school computer ChromeOS password is the same as your new school @mths.ca Gmail password

    • if you are using your own computer, just ensure you are using a Chrome web browser

    • if you are using a school "locked down" Chromebook, log on using your @ocsbstudent.ca password as normal

      • then go to settings and turn on "developer" mode; then Linux; then load the Chrome web browser

        • then load ChromeOS under Linux :
          sudo apt update
          wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
          sudo apt install ./google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb

• log into your new @mths.ca Google Apps account

  • watch video, "Access new Google account"

    • ex login: John.Dow@mths.ca

  • send me an email from your new @mths.ca school Gmail account to "Mr.Coxall@mths.ca" saying you got in

    • ensure every time you send me an email it is to Mr.Coxall@mths.ca

    • ensure every time you send me an email it is from your @mths.ca

    • ensure you always include a "subject"

    • ensure your writing is always "professional" in the email

    • ensure you always check your spelling (it is the stuff with a red squiggly underline!)

• sign into your Google Classroom for this course

  • watch video, "Google Classroom"

  • you should have received an invite in your new @mths.ca email account

Daily Assignment

• read the Computer Use Policy (see file below: ↓) and then fill in this form

  • note you MUST be signed in to your @mths.ca account!

  • take a screenshot of the form after you have submitted it; you will be using it in the next step

• fill out the Computer Skills Inventory form

  • note again, you MUST be signed in to your @mths.ca account!

  • take a screenshot again of the form after you have submitted it; you will be using it in the next step

• fill out the Google Docs template in Google Classroom for Intro-01

  • insert the 2 screenshots you took of the finished Google forms

  • remember, you MUST have an entry for EVERY SINGLE LESSON in Google Classroom that matches the current lesson you are in

  • see the example document to know what to submit → Jane Smith - ICS3U - Intro-01.pdf (see file below: ↓)

Extra

• try a coding tutorial here:

  • Beginner Skill Map

  • do the tutorial located at the top right in the water by itself

• if you do this, add a screenshot once done into your Google Classroom doc

  • there will always be a place for the "Extra"