Agenda:

• Introduction, review syllabus and expectations
• Optimal design team members and roles
• Why planning is essential to effective digital communication
• In-class lab: set up WordPress blogs

Lecture: PPT, Slideshare

MultiMedia:

• The Machine Is Us/ing Us (info, YouTube)
• Forget Technology (YouTube)

Lab:

• Create Student Blogs using Word Press ; use your UWNetID as your login. That will make your WordPress URL <uwnetid.wordpress.com>. It will make my life easier.
• Create an initial blog post, 200-300 words on how you use digital media (web, podcasts, cellphones, etc) in your life every day. Categorize the blog post “assignment”
• Before 10.00 pm, e-mail the blog post URL (permalink) to me at kegill – at – uw
  • Required settings
    • Make the name (separate from the login) distinctive (not “Com585″!) – This setting is found under “options – general”
    • Change the time (options tab) to -8 Greenwich Mean Time so that we all have the same timestamp
    • Change the design (presentation tab)
    • Create the following blog post categories — we will be categorizing all blog entries
      • Assignment
      • Reading
      • Discussion Leader
  • Recommended settings:
    • Make the blog public but not included in search engines or public listings unless you want the outside world to easily view your blog. This setting is found under “options – privacy”
    • To avoid spam, enable “Users must be registered and logged in to comment.” This setting is found under “options – general”