Week 1 Notes – Th

• How to set up UW Net ID for web publishing
• Podcast ideas from Winter
• What is new media?
• Front Pages From Around The World
• Apple 1984 ad and parody

Week 1 – Tu

• Class introductions
• Review syllabus, course requirements
  • Office Hours : Thursday, 3.30 – 4.30 and by appointment
  • Office : 251B Communications Building
  • Syllabus Exercise
• MultiMedia: Blogging and Public Affairs (Link to Epic2015)
• In Class Lab:
  • Create: Student Blogs using Word Press ; use your UWNetID as your login. That will make your WordPress URL <uwnetid.wordpress.com>
  • e-mail blog URL (link) to me at kegill – at – uw
    • Recommended settings:
      • Make the blog public but not included in search engines or public listings (unless you want the outside world – strangers – to easily view your blog!) – This is under “options – privacy”
      • Make the name distinctive (not “Com300”!) – This is under “options – general”
      • To avoid spam, enable “Users must be registered and logged in to comment” – This is under “options – general”

resources

• About UW Net IDs
• How to use Catalyst Tools:
  • eSubmit
  • Peer Group Tool
  • webQ
  • A brief guide to mailing lists

Using WordPress With Class

All weekly class notes will be posted here, on WordPress.

The main website for the class remains on UW servers.

This is an experiment. :)