It was a pleasure to meet with all of you today. The interviews we did helped me learn names and get to know you better–and I hope they did the same for you.

The part of our class session when we tried to sign in to City Tech email was…less positive.

What you had to do:

If you made it through from

  1. finding out what your City Tech email address is to
  2. logging in into your email account to
  3. actually finding email messages to
  4. going to City Tech’s OpenLab to
  5. creating an OpenLab account to
  6. verifying your account by clicking the link in the message sent to your City Tech email to
  7. logging in to your OpenLab account to
  8. joining our course to
  9. looking through our course site, you truly do have superpowers!

Share those superpowers with the rest of the class, if you can, so everyone can do all of those things, too. If you figured something out that will help everyone, please let us know in the comments below!

A few tips for this process:

  • OpenLab Help has lots of great resources to guide you through this process.
  • Remember that you can reach out to the Student Help Desk, either by going in person, or by calling or emailing.
  • When signing up for an OpenLab account, you only need to bother with the required fields.
  • If you have trouble on your phone, try on a computer–that worked for one member of our class today!
  • Be sure you use lowercase when it says to, make sure your email matches your email when it asks for it twice, and that your password matches your password.
  • Remember that you don’t need to use your real name for your username or display name. You can’t change your username but you can change your display name.
  • You can do all of your work for this class without actually having an OpenLab account yet, so don’t let IT difficulties keep you from learning with us!

A few other reminders

  • Check the weekly class agenda to know what we’re doing and what you need to do before our next class.
  • You’ll need to read Mike Bunn’s “How To Read Like A Writer”–either the paper copy I shared in class or the version I link to in the agenda and the course schedule.
  • I ask you to join our discussion about Bunn’s essay and also to join our Introductions discussion by writing a comment introducing yourself.
  • We didn’t get to review our syllabus in class today–we’ll start with that in class on Wednesday. Feel free to read it and think about it, but we’ll also be doing that together in class. Feel free to print a copy to bring with you if you learn better that way.

Looking forward to learning with you on Wednesday!