Faculty WebPage For John Goldfine

How to log on, start your blog, and connect to me electronically

Starting your blog: go to your browser and in the address window type in www.blogger.com 

Another page will appear.  Click the orange arrow in the lower right. 

Another page comes up and you will fill in all the blanks.  

·        user name is your blog login name  (remember it!)

·        don’t choose a password you won’t remember!

·        display name is the author’s name that will appear on the blog posts—could be anything you want--you can be anonymous

·        If you have no other email address, the school has supplied you with one: john.smith@studentone.emcc.edu  --assuming your name is John Smith.

*        do the word verification and acceptance of term things

*        hit orange arrow

Another page comes up: 

·        blog title is the name of your blog—it can be changed anytime

·        blog address is the one and only forever address of your blog and cannot change 

*        do the verification thing

*        hit orange arrow

Next page: choose a template.  You can change it later so don’t agonize too long.  Minima Black and Dots Dark are extremely popular and extremely annoying to have to read, but that’s life for English teachers, eh?  Scribe is my favorite (‘scribe’ means ‘writer,’) followed by Dots.

 When you hit the next orange arrow, your blog will be created.  You're not done yet though.

Setting up your blog: there are a couple of things you must do once you go onto your blog page.   

1.    Go to settings/comments.  Here are the settings I care about:

Comments: Show

Who can comment: anyone

Comment moderation: never

Show word verification: no--NO NO NO!

     Save these settings by clicking the button at the bottom of the page (not with Windows).

  2.     Then go to Formatting  

·       Show 30 days of posts—change that 7 to 30

·       Change default Timestamp format to one that shows date and time.

·      Change the Timezone to GMT-5 US/Eastern or America/New York. 

·        Save what you do (down at the bottom, not using Windows!)

3.     Now go to Archiving and make sure the archiving frequency is set at ‘Monthly.’ 

4.    Then if you’re hot to trot, go to Posting and start writing!  You cannot ViewBlog until you post something! 

By the way, your blog can be anonymous to the class (but, obviously, not to me.)  Your name doesn’t have to appear, but I have to know who the person is behind the pen name, at least if you want credit for the course!

 You will only go through this process ONE TIME. Every other time you go to your blog, you simply sign in, go to Posting and start a new post.  Do NOT create a whole new blog!   

Next task.  Connecting to me: I need to know the address of your blog!   

Please send an email to johngoldfine@mainelywired.net.  Don’t use a subject line.  

 In the email, I want three things and only three:

1.     your real name

2.     your complete email address

3.     the complete URL or address  of your blog  which will be http://whateveryouputinhere.blogspot.com 

No partial addresses.  Any address you write should automatically underline—that means it’s complete. 

This URL will be sitting in the toolbar above your blog when you go to view the blog itself (not the backstage page you’re currently on.)  Copy and paste is probably your best bet!  If it ain't complete, I won't be able to add your email or your blog, so...!

Your email should look like this:

John Smith

jssy@aol.com

http://jssyblog.blogspot.com

 DON’T LOSE YOUR BLOG ADDRESS, especially before you’ve mailed it to me, because if I don’t have it and you don’t  have it, you’ve got to go through the whole process again.  You can also find it by looking in Settings/Publishing.

To go to your blog anytime, just type in the address onto a web browser, or go in via www.blogger.com (but don't start a new blog--just log in) or you can put a shortcut on your desktop.

Now what?  Now you have a blog you can fiddle around with.  It has features and you can play with them.  You can also write your blog stuff for the course. 

·    When you are posting in response to one of my assignments, YOU HAVE TO PUT THE NAME OF THE ASSIGNMENT IN THE TITLE WINDOW on your blog.  For example, the first assignment in 101 is the ‘Hands assignment.'   Write in ‘graf # 1’ and that will be copacetic.   The Prompt assignments must have Prompt Reaction Week #1, Prompt Reaction Week #2, etc as the only title.  Freestyle posts must be titled Freestyle Week #1, etc. 

·    I will be sending the names of the blogs to all the students in the class.  You can all comment on each other’s blogs, but no flames, harassment, or rudeness.  Let me know if you want to be anonymous.

Further connections (for 101): all assignments, course info, details on assignments, handouts, prompts, sample essays and isearches, and other stuff is available at http://sharepoint.emcc.edu/faculty/jgoldfine. 

Then just look for the Fall 10 Eng 101 link on the left.