Blog class #3

Only four people showed up for the third class. We spent a lot of time on copyright. Previously I sent them several examples of copyright statements along with a link to the creative commons site. I spent some time explaining each of the options. Of course, my student who originally jumped the gun on copyright, wasn’t there for the discussion. I could hope someone else will fill her in.

My four students all opted for a simple copyright statement, Copyright 2009, YOURNAME, which we put into a widget, getting two lessons in one. After that instruction I went to links, the obvious answer for not violating someone else’s copyright. Having only the four people allowed me to work with each of them individually, which I found useful. A couple of the people put in a list of links that never seemed to show up in the blog. I fixed one of these by moving the blog to a different theme. I don’t know what happened with the other blog, but she seems to have fixed it herself. I don’t know how my students find problems I’ve never seen before.

I will still be in New York on Saturday so we won’t meet again until April 18. Probably wishful thinking on my part, but I’m hoping they will all be far enough along to think about methods for developing revenue sources and ways of increasing audience. I think I am not the person to teach this stuff: I have only a small audience and nothing commercial on my blogs, so it’s probably just as well no one is really ready to learn it. All of this info is available on the web. What I’d really like is to get them all sufficiently computer literate to find it themselves.