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For some/many assignments, students may be asked to sign up for a website, etc. We recommend that you do not use personal or school email addresses for this.

Please read the following in order to create a "disposable" email account for this class.

Setting Up Disposable Email Accounts

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As part of your various Technology and Society assignments you may need to sign up for an account on various web sites. We are strongly recommending that you do not use your actual email address for doing this, for both your personal privacy and also so avoid receiving spam in your personal inbox.

There are many wonderful online services that provide disposable email address but some, more legitimate websites (like Amazon’s Mechanical Turk) often block accounts created using such addresses, so we are recommending that you create a (new) Gmail account instead. But if you are interested, feel free to check out this listing of disposable email address services:

http://email.about.com/od/disposableemailservices/tp/disposable.htm).

To create a Gmail account, go to http://www.gmail.com/ and click on the “Create An Account” button at the top right (if you already have a Gmail account and find yourself logged in, simply log out first and create a separate account).

Fill out the form to create an account. We want everyone to have a unique account that your teacher can identify.

For your first name put CSPrinciples

For your last name put your seat/computer number.

Your username should be the following items appended together (an example might be Period2Lopez152013):

PeriodX (whatever Period this class is: e.g., Period2)

TeacherLastName (your Teachers Last Name e.g., Lopez)

YourSeatNumber (or computer number, e.g. 15)

TheYear (e.g. 2013)

You can choose whatever password you like (as long as you can remember it).

For your privacy it is best not to use your actual birthday, so choose whichever birthday and gender you would like, but make sure that you choose a reasonable birthday that makes your age at least 13, or Google will refuse the registration.

You do not need to provide a Mobile phone number or current email address.

Type the CAPCHA to prove that you are not a robot.

Select the checkbox to agree the Terms of Service a Privacy Policy (feel free to read them, if you are so inclined), and hit the button at the end to create your account.

You should receive a confirmation screen welcoming you to Gmail. You can use this account to sign up for things and possibly receive email for your Technology and Society Assignments.