02a-Registering on the Blog

Before you post to the blog for the first time, you will need to register on WordPress.com–unless you already have a WordPress account (my students from last semester do).   Click Signup Now in the upper right and use your GMU user name and email address; write down your password (or use one you will remember).  Leave Gimme a blogunchecked. I will use your GMU email address to give you write privileges on the blog.  Because this may take a while, you may want to begin your writing using an HTML editor or Word (saving the file as a web page ).

Once you are fully have registered, you should see a New Post link at the top of the page.  Give your post a title like “Introduction,” and enter the text of your post in the box under Post.  You should see a check box with your name under People at the top right of the Write page as one of the categories.  Also check Introductions before you click on Publish.

You will follow this procedure in future posts except that you will chose different titles and check different categories to correspond to the assignment.  If you do not check these categories, you will not receive credit for the assignment.