Nine out of the ten people registered showed up for the class. They all seem to have the same degree of computer literacy, except for one person who seems to be ahead of the others. We began by discussing their intentions for their blogs. Then I defined user name, URL and domain name and had them check their blog names by Googling them with quotation marks around the name. After everyone was satisfied with their names they began setting up their blogs. I decided to use WordPress since I am familiar with it, although I did check out Blogger. I find the instructions easy to follow, but it’s not easy for people who are not comfortable with computers.
I was very grateful to have Judy, one of our administrators, in the class. She helped me keep everyone on the same page. It was not easy to quickly see what everyone was doing. The room is a little tight when it’s fully occupied, and I can’t get around quickly.
The class meets for two hours, and the time went much too fast. I wanted each of them to write their first post, but it didn’t happen. I had them save their posts as drafts then took them to the Themes section and explained custom headers and a little bit about pictures. Next week we will concentrate on pictures.
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