A best practices guide to using our class chat
Please see my other post on this travelogue, found here.
Hopefully you all have seen the chat on the side of the blog as you make comments and post tonight, and feel free to even write a little note on the chat right now. However, what I am really hoping is that you will use it during class. I really don’t care how you decide to use it, so you can do whatever you want, but I thought it could be helpful to give you a primer on possibilities, without leading your behavior. A few things you ought to know about the chat:
- The history of the chat is almost forever, and the chat is persistent across the entire site. You can browse around, come back, and leave again, and it will always update you on all of the activity while you were away.
- By default, you are anonymous. Your posts you make in the chat are in no way tied to your Wordpress login name, and you can change it by pressing the
button, and selecting “change name”. A few points about changing your name. You may want to stay anonymous, because you feel it might give you more liberty in expressing what you say. On the flip-side, you may want to get credit for what you say. It’s your choice. EDIT: you may choose to be anon for the period of the class, and then change your handle later. All of your posts (posted from the same computer, mind you) will be retroactively changed to your new name, and the chat will NOT say Max is now Xam) - Use the chat in addition to talking in class. It will be cool to see how offline and online live spaces converge, mix, and juxtapose with the blog format of our class.
- Remember that this is much more unstructured than other participation we have in class, so use it however you see fit, especially if it breaks rules.
- If you go the anonymous route, even Mushon can’t see who you are. We can guess, but that’s about it.
If you think of another good rule for the chat box, post it in the comments, and we will act accordingly.
Thanks,
Max
Blogging on Wordpress 2.5 (-5 teeth)
Things are looking slicker (but probably less familiar) in the backend. Wordpress came up with a new version (which I LOVE!) (I hope you do to). Here’s a screencast that might help you adjust:
*Please don’t use the gallery feature in your posts, what we have (with the lightbox effect) is better.
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Welcome to NMRS.
To start I would ask you to register to the blog . After you register, I’ll be able to add you as authors in the blog. You can always sign in with your username and password from the link at the bottom of the page. and as you will soon see, this is where all the action is going to take place…
