starting to work
Just spent an hour and a half with Martha, and my head’s been spinning for most of it. But I think I have grasped some things, especially after she showed me how one of my colleagues is using a blog as a website for her class.
First thing we did today was upload, from Bluehost, a spam manager. Once that was found and uploaded (I think it had to be downloaded to my desktop first, then uploaded from there, and I think it was called “spam karma”), we went to the blog and activated it. Then we did that again for theme managing under “presentation.” k2 is the theme we installed.
Once I began to understand how the blog was a website that I could have a series of buttons on that would link to what could be units of material for a course (which could be listed down the right hand side, sort of as a table of contents), I asked her to show me how to get started on creating a blog I could start shaping for PHIL151, Intro to Logic. So now besides cvasey.org/tltblog I have cvasey.org/phil151. Just as we had installed the spam and theme stuff on my tltblog, we had to go to Bluehost and find them for my phil151 blog. So I’ve done this four times today, but I don’t know if I can do it without being walked through it again. I can’t try right now because if I navigate there, I’ll be cancelling what I’m writing. So I will go try it in a minute after I’m done here.
I created a set of categories for the phil151 blog, but they didn’t show up as table of content entries like we expected. So that’s something we have to work on.