One key feature to this website is the various interactive abilities it contains. There are several ways (as you'll find out) that you can interact with other students and me via this website. That said, the most common method for interacting will be through the use of comments. You can use the commenting feature to make quick comments or questions within any entry on the News page. You'll submit questions, and receive responses, using the commenting system in the Virtual Office area. And you'll submit your Knowledge Digs via the commenting system.
The commenting system works in tandem with Google's Blogger website. When you click a link that says add a comment then you'll see a little window pop up that's provided by Blogger. When you publish the comment it will actually appear in two places: on a Blogger page (which you don't care about) but also underneath the entry where you made the comment. To see the comment you'll need to click on the permalink (i.e. the entry's title). Some pages may differ from this if I choose to activate the "show all comments" feature for the main page. Typically I won't do this because it significantly delays the loading of a page even when there aren't comments.
I've provided a short one-page description of how to post a comment that you can download. Once in a long while someone publishes a comment but nothing shows up. Not a big problem, unless it was a long comment! Then you need to write it all over again. I want to stress this happens very infrequently, and my guess is that it is "user error." However, to be safe, you may want to write a comment in some other application, then copy/paste to the Blogger commenting box. That way, if worse comes to worse, all you need to do is copy/paste once again.
I'd like each of you to add a comment to this entry before our August 23rd meeting. It can be something simple like, "I can make a comment!" It can be more elaborate like, "I had a great summer vacation going to . . ." But the purpose behind this mini-task is to make sure all of you know how to make a comment at the start of the semester.
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This is an example of a comment. Notice how it shows up just under the regular entry. You can write as much text as you want and it will get nicely formatted.
Except for very short comments, I highly suggest writing your replies in something OTHER than the Blogger comment box. That way if something weird happens, and the comment doesn't post, you haven't ALSO ended up losing your writing.
It's easy to copy/paste then republish. It's hard and frustrating to have to write a comment from scratch again.
Hi everyone, I hope you all had a great summer.
Just got back from my sweet home Chicago and I'm looking forward to August 23.
Kristina: If you're a baseball fan, this must be a great summer for you! Two teams that might meet in the World Series.
Can't wait for the class to start. I have been looking forward to this topic for awhile...
Greetings!
Here's a second try as I am not Leslie Crawford.
Hi everyone,
Hope the summer was good for all. Mine feels too short already.
-Shannon
I can make a comment
Hello everyone
I just returned from Wyoming. It was a wonderful respite from my normal life which was a bit chaotic this summer.
I was expecting to come back this fall and make a movie.
Debrayh
Hi Everyone,
I am very much looking forward to the topics in this class and meeting new classmates!
Hi Everyone,
Just got back from a amazing teaching trip from Nicaragua. As customary, I am now totally depressed as I had to get back to the good old routine and the San Francisco summer.
I'm working hard to dust off the cobwebs. Cheers, to a cool semester!
Best summer since 1995! Looking forward to class on Saturday.
This is my erudite comment.
Hi! Looking forward to class!
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