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- Go to Google, and click on the “Sign in” link in the upper right-hand corner of the screen.
- If you do not yet have a Google account, please take this opportunity to create one now by clicking on the “Create an account now” link in the middle of the right-hand side of the screen.
- If you do have a Google account, please sign in now.
- Once you’re back at the familiar Google search screen, select “Documents” from the “more” drop-down menu.
- To post your response to a writing prompt, please create a new document by clicking on the “New Document” link in the upper left-hand corner of the screen.
- Please save your new document immediately by clicking on the “Untitled” button in the upper left-hand corner of the screen. Please include in your title the following information: ATI2007, your name, and the number of the writing prompt to which you are responding. Thank you.
- Type your response to the writing prompt.
- When you are ready to publish your response—to make it visible to our group only—please save your document and then click on the “Docs Home” link in the upper right-hand corner of the screen. Once there, click on the small, blue “Share Now” link under the “Owners / Collaborators / Viewers” column to the right of your document name. Copy and paste the email list from the “ATI2007: Email Address for Google Docs Invitations” document, and click the “Skip sending invitation” button.
- To edit any entry—yours or one to which another has invited you, any that shows up on your “Active Docs & Spreadsheets” page, simply click on the title and edit.