Read:
- Miriam Posner, Stewart Varner, and Brian Coxall, “Creating Your Web Presence,” ProfHacker, February 14, 2011.
- Ryan Cordell, “Creating and Maintaining a Professional Presence Online,” ProfHacker, October 3, 2012.
Do:
Make sure you sign up for a blog on WordPress.com. Here is the support page if you need help.
Fill out the class survey (required)
After the first class, please fill out this form to submit your new blog to me.
It might be wise to bookmark this class website. You will need to check it often for your assignments and information.
Download Slack. (Works on PC and Mac) We will use Slack to communicate for group projects. Our team url for sign in is hist390.slack.com. You MUST use your GMU email address to register for the Slack channel. Here is our signup page. Set up your account with a profile image of yourself and your real name.
After class:
On your blog, write a short (200-500 word) blog post about who you are, your academic career, and what you personally feel about having an online presence based on the articles. Let us know if there is anything interesting about you as well! We want to get to know you since this is a highly collaborative class. Customize your blog in a way that you feel fits for this class. It doesn’t have to be too fancy, but make it you! DUE JANUARY 28 BY 5PM