You are making progress!

Look at you go! You all are making progress in your class. Here's what you should have finished by tomorrow:

1. Blog set up
2. Blog ring added and working properly
3. Post your Blog Introduction
4. Post Responses to Chapters 1 and 3
5. Posted 2 comments to fellow students' blog
6. Posted 1 free post blog
7. Worked at least one time in the class Wiki
8. Created a Turnitin.com account


If you have completed all of this, then you are on track. If not, you need to complete these pieces ASAP. Remember that I am grading these assignments. If you have any questions at all, please ask!

I will be contacting those of you who are having ring problems today. We need to get all the ring codes working correctly so that you can move around the ring easily.

Now let's get back to our CPR Practice Module assignment:

I hope that you completed the very short writing assignment that I discussed Friday. You should save this in a word processing program (word is easiest).

Next, you will need to make your file a .pdf. A pdf is a type of file that is basically a snapshot picture of your page. It can't be altered and the text/graphics won't move around no matter on what type of computer you open it. This is important to our tech writing class, since a good portion of your grade is based on document design--spacing, bold, italics etc. If you document doesn't open properly you might be marked down for something that is actually a computer glitch, not your mistake. By saving our files as .pdfs we avoid this.

So there's the rationale for the .pdf. Here's how to save the file:

There are two easy ways to save files as .pdf.

1. Many computers (including all Apples and all TAMU lab computers) have the .pdf converter installed within word.

a. Open your file in word
b. Click on File, Print
c. Click on "save as pdf" and follow the steps
d. You are finished!

2. If you don't have this setting/ program on your computer your other option is to use a free web based trial program available at Create Adove PDF online (Http://createpdf.adobe.com. Setting up a free account will give you 5 free conversions, exactly the number needed for our class.

Once you have converted your file, you will upload or submit it to turnitin.com. Remember that this is like handing the paper to your instructor in class.

To submit the file:

1. Login to turnitin.com
2. Click on the link for "ENGL 301: 584"
3. Look for "CPR Instructions" and the submit icon to the right of it
4. Click on submit and follow directions

You are finished! More tomorrow on this process.