The “tech task” for this week is to set up your UMass WordPress blog and to post a brief “technology autobiography”:
- log into your blog at http://websites.umass.edu/
- enter a name for your blog
- choose a theme
- add the other members of 891i to your blogroll
- make any other adjustments or customizations you want
- create a post in which you reflect on your own experiences with technology — a kind of “technology autobiography”
You can refer to OIT’s help docs on how to use/manage/configure your blog: http://www.oit.umass.edu/blogs/howtos/index.html. (I’ve also uploaded a quickstart guide to WordPress for instructors to the UDrive — it’s from 2009, so the screenshots of the interface probably won’t match what you see on your screen, but you may find some of the explanations helpful).
Blogroll links to add:
- http://websites.umass.edu/tgrandy
- http://websites.umass.edu/dgree0
- http://websites.umass.edu/agriswol
- http://websites.umass.edu/cmjones
- http://websites.umass.edu/jkrainsk
- http://websites.umass.edu/elmattis
- http://websites.umass.edu/cschulze
- http://websites.umass.edu/atzineri
- https://websites.umass.edu/jlsolber (this 891i blog)