We will setup our blogs Fri­day in class; in­struc­tions be­low.
— feel to cre­ate and mod­ify yours as much as you’d like!

Once you cre­ate your blog, please post your link in a com­ment be­low.
*This is im­por­tant so I have your URL! (to up­date the blogroll)

Note if you’d pre­fer your blog to be pri­vate,
fol­low these in­struc­tions — be sure to give me (and class­mates?) ac­cess
• Rec­om­mended: you can set in­di­vid­ual posts and pages to pri­vate us­ing Vis­i­bil­ity set­tings

In your first en­try (a “post,” not a com­ment):

1. briefly in­tro­duce your­self: need not to be ex­tent of “In­ter­est In­ven­tory,” and this is pub­lic in­tro­duc­tion to class­mates (sug­gested your ma­jor, minor/program, and grade level; plus, any past writ­ing courses and/or your cur­rent classes and major/field area of in­ter­est.)
2. your idea and “work­ing de­f­i­n­i­tion” of “world­view” and of “ex­pe­ri­ence”
3. any other in­ter­est­ing in­for­ma­tion or me­dia you’d like to share
(e.g. ex­am­ple of some­thing “thought-provoking” you read or saw or heard?)
or a fa­vorite im­age or video, pop cul­ture form or meme from past or present?)

	Reg­is­ter @ Word­Press
	WP Sup­port site

Tech­ni­cal In­struc­tions for Blog Setup:

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Blog Setup:

• Word­Press Reg­is­ter
• Com­plete reg­is­tra­tion, us­ing CU email ac­count. Note: user­name will be­come URL (ad­dress) by de­fault. e.g. http://philoso­pher­jane.word​press​.com.
• How­ever, you can re­name do­main on next page:
  e.g. User­name: GHink. Do­main: “3020​world​view​.word​press​.com”
  And then (re-)title blog — Blog Ti­tle: for ex­am­ple, mine could be “World­view What? | Spring ’16”
  (ti­tle yours what­ever you would like!)
  
  
• (Then click “signup”).
  
• Next, choose Theme. Many to browse/select; choose a theme you like!
  (one ex­pres­sive of your per­son­al­ity, aes­thet­i­cally pleas­ing, rel­e­vant wid­gets, etc)
  Browse or search; pre­view or activate—you can al­ways choose new themes with­out any per­ma­nent changes to your blog. I sug­gest two- (or three-) col­umn lay­out.
  

Once you’ve cre­ated your WP account/blog:
—your user­name is your URL (e.g. ghink​.word​press​.com)

— lo­gin in or­der to post/edit: Word​Press​.com

The “Dash­board” is the page to cre­ate con­tent and edit ap­pear­ance. This page presents full con­trol of your blog — in­clud­ing ap­pear­ance, entries/pages/content, and all ad­min­is­tra­tive func­tions. Look around — the nav­i­ga­tion is fairly in­tu­itive.

Next, you’ll prob­a­bly want to change a few Set­tings (Dash­board, left side­bar):

• “Gen­eral Set­tings“: Blog Ti­tle (if you’ve not al­ready)
  
• “Users” — “Your Pro­file”: Name, avatar, etc
• “Ap­pear­ance” — “Themes“: (if you’ve not al­ready)
• “Ap­pear­ance” — “Wid­gets“:
  – All op­tional, yet I strongly sug­gest:
  “Search,” “Pages,” “Cat­e­gories,” “Tag Cloud,”
  “Links” (add class­mates to your Blogroll).
  Note: “Meta” is a key wid­get, in or­der to lo­gin di­rectly on your page; (faster than WP​.com).

Now you’re ready to add con­tent.

• “Pages” (Dash­board, left side­bar :
  First, edit the “About” page (re­quired); at min­i­mum, sug­gest Name, Course, Se­mes­ter (like my cur­rent About page). Use pri­vacy logic; do not post your email ad­dress, to avoid re­ceiv­ing spam.
  
  Next, cre­ate a page for track­ing your group project work (an­no­ta­tions): “Dig­i­tal Cu­rat­ing”
  — You’ll cre­ate pages later for Projects 1 and 2.
  Any ad­di­tional pages are up to you. I will be able to dis­tin­guish your “of­fi­cial” class en­tries (weekly, for credit) by the tags and cat­e­gories that you add to Posts (re­quired)
• En­tries (“Posts”)

  First, edit the ini­tial / de­fault en­try.
  Here, briefly de­scribe your blog; ad­di­tion­ally, I would like every­one specif­i­cally to in­tro­duce them­selves in their first en­try.
  
  — Once you edit the text-field, add Tags and the Cat­e­gory (right side­bar).
  Then click “Up­date” (for new en­tries, “Pub­lish” but­ton).
  
  In the fu­ture, click “Add New” un­der “Posts” (left sidebar)—this is how you’ll add en­tries (and your re­sponse as­sign­ments).
  
  Note on Tags and Cat­e­gories:

  these are im­por­tant for read­ers (me, pri­mar­ily), es­pe­cially as the se­mes­ter pro­gresses (and you ac­cu­mu­late ~15–20 blog en­tries). This is how I’ll dis­tin­guish your class en­tries — along with any read­ing notes, project prepa­ra­tion, etc. — from any per­sonal en­tries that you might post (op­tional).

  
  More on “Posts” at Word­Press Sup­port




• “Links” (left side­bar):
  — “Edit” (delete de­fault links)
  — “Add New”
  (at min­i­mum, the course blog; plus any oth­ers you’d like to add, such as your class­mates’ blogs and rel­e­vant web sites).


For fur­ther tech­ni­cal help, you can find answers/instructions to most is­sues in the

Word­Press Sup­port sec­tion as well as the
Sup­port Fo­rum
(both of which you can search with key­words).




Sug­ges­tion:

test out (“ex­plore”) the in­ter­face con­trols, and you’ll likely in­tuit the func­tions fairly quickly (more quickly, I’d say!).
Specif­i­cally, when cre­at­ing an en­try, you’ll see two rows of for­mat­ting com­mands at the top of the text field, when in “Vi­sual” view—these cover most func­tions, (ba­sic and oth­er­wise!). The “vi­sual” view is the ac­tual design/formatting (“what you see is what you get”)—this is how your “post” will look.
More about this later and/or by re­quest, (and as al­ways, email me with Qs/problems).