These are the preliminary instructions for a CFF Board Member to join CFF Communities. Because of access control that limits who can view CFF Board materials, there are two steps, first join CFF Communities and second notify the administrator to add you to the CFF Board Member list.

First, Join CFF Communities:

• Go to the CFF Communities web site at http://cs.classroomofthefuture.org/  (of course, if you are reading it on the InnovationWizard blog, you are already here!)
• Locate and click on the Join link near the top right corner of the window
• Choose a username that will identify any of your discussion posts, blog comments, or uploaded content.
• Choose a password that you will use to login
• Provide an email address to be used by CFF Communities to authenticate your login information and later to inform you about updated information
• Click Join
• Wait for the email to arrive
• Open the email and click on the link provided by CFF Communities, which will enable your account for login 
  

You now are a Registered User of CFF Communities, but not yet a CFF Board Member, so you may visit all of the public information; one more step to gain access to the protected information limited to CFF Board Members only.

Authenticate Your Login as a CFF Board Member

• Compose an email to Rick Beach and include your username so that we can add you to the CFF Board Member list.
• Wait for a reply email to confirm that you have been added to the CFF Board Member list.

Your login will now be able to access all of the public content as well as the protected information accessible by members of the CFF Board list

Subscribe to CFF Discussion Groups

Because you may not visit the CFF Communities web site as often as new material is posted, you can subscribe to discussion groups (and enable an RSS feed, if you know what that means!).

• Go to the CFF Communities web site
• Click on the Forums button
• Locate and click on the link for Forum Subscriptions in the Shortcuts box in the right column
• For each discussion forum that interests you, check the Subscribe status and click on the No to turn it to Yes (or to unsubscribe then click on the Yes to turn it to No)

Now when new content is added to the discussion forum, CFF Communities will send to your email address a notice of the new material with a link to review it.  If you click on that link, you'll now be presented with the new material and with a bit of exploration, you can find ways to Reply and if you click on the name of the discussion forum you can write a new post.

Have fun!  Be bold!

Cheers
Rick