Welcome to Read | Write | Play
Your homework to complete before we meet again on Tuesday:
- Read over this website very carefully as it constitutes the syllabus for this course. Note that the Syllabus page includes a number of subpages, covering such topics as: how to contact me and course objectives; the texts you need to buy; attendance, participation, and other policies; how you will be graded; and how Domain of One’s Own will impact your experience in this class. There is also a calendar of reading and assignments; and pages describing the major and minor assignments this semester.
- Add this site to your bookmarks. Make certain that you can find your way back here, because you’ll be spending a lot of time visiting these pages over the course of this semester.
- Reply to this survey form, which both asks some basic information I’ll need in order to manage communications with you and also asks some questions that will help me get to know you a little bit better.
Once you’ve completed those tasks, begin to establish your home base for this class:
- Sign up for a domain of your own. (See this post first for a note about choosing a domain name.)
- Install WordPress on your domain. Give your site a title that is not “My blog.”
- Configure the settings on your site, making the front page static instead of a posts page.
- Come back to this post once you have signed up for your domain and leave a comment. Enter your name and email and the new domain address in the “website” line when on the comment. In the body of the comment, ask one question about the syllabus.
Hi professor David Morgen. Would there be a schedule on the syllabus about what we would do on each class?
Yes. Sorry, I had the wrong page in the menu earlier today.
Do you accept drafts?
I guess it depends on what you mean by “accept.” Everything you write in this class will include drafts, in fact every finished piece of writing will still be a draft until you turn in your final portfolio.
Do we need to start configuring our domain or is just setting it up for Thursday is fine?
Get at least basic configuration done (static front page and a little bit of basic information about yourself on your primary domain, and on the subdomain try to set a static front page, create a menu with custom links to your primary domain and to the class page, and add the Meta widget to your site). Getting those basic setup steps completed will let me start to configure the course site to include your writing.
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