Welcome notes

You're going to get an invitation to join the jour5990 blog here in a few minutes. You'll need to have a Gmail account to do it. If you don't have one, let me know and I'll send you an invitation for one.

Once you've signed in, please work on making two posts by Friday at 9 a.m. The first is just an introductory piece - who are you, were are you from, why you're taking this class. Once you're in the create-a-post section, you'll have to give it a title and there will be a block to type in. At the bottom will be a section called "labels" - one of the important parts of blogging is labeling stuff. For your intro post, type in your last name to create a label for yourself. Then, on all of your future posts, make sure you use that label and any other appropriate ones. (Each post can have multiple labels.) That allows readers to sort by any of those labels.

On your second post, you'll need to have a link to another site - something relevant to things we'll be discussing in class. It can be great multimedia pieces, tech stories - whatever you think fits. If there isn't an obvious label there already, make a new one. (I'll probably fill in some basic ones on Wednesday.) (Or post this email on the blog as a reference piece.)

To link to another site, highlight the text you want to be the link and in the tool bar above where you're typing you'll see a piece of chain - click on that and you can paste in the URL for the web site. That's all you need to do to link.

For the Mac users, Firefox works a little better than Safari on some blogs. This one usually works okay with Safari, but if it does strange things (like not showing you the tool bar), try it in Firefox.

Happy blogging.

-mej