LitMUSE

I have finished my summer session course Technology and the Creative Artist. If you are registered for this class, I would like to strongly encourage you to begin. As the schedule states, it is designed to fit within the confines of a session course, but you will want to begin early. This course has a [...]

Welcome to those of you registered for my first session summer 2009 course Technology and the Creative Artist. I know it’s early yet, but I wanted to let you know a couple of things. This course will meet entirely online. We will have no face-to-face meetings at all. This is due to the fact that [...]

As we draw to a close of our Writing for Digital Media class, you have a couple more assignments to accomplish. These include a an audience analysis, a self evaluation, and final thoughts. First, you should submit an audience evaluation to me. If you have not done so already, read Kimball, pages 46 through 48. [...]

If you are in my Writing for Digital Media class, you will be finishing up your portfolio this month — at least what you’ll be doing for me. I hope that you find your portfolio to be useful to you for the rest of your professional career. The final step is to integrate your other [...]

Now that you have a couple of pages posted to your portfolios, it’s time to join the conversation on the ‘Net. In the current Web 2.0 environment, it’s no longer enough to have a static web site — you must allow for users to participate on your web site, and you must do the same [...]

While you are working on getting content onto your Writing for Digital Media portfolio, you should also consider an important tweak that will make your site more friendly to your users. Before you post any real content, be sure it’s easy to find. If you look at the URLs in your site, you’ll notice that [...]

If you are in my Writing for Digital Media class, you now have a professional domain name, working email for the domain, and a functional content management system installed on the domain. Having achieved all of this, you still ostensibly do not have much to show for it. You now must add content. There are [...]

The following portfolios are being developed for my Spring 2009 section of Writing for Digital Media. If you’re enrolled in this class and your link is not here by Friday, 2/13, you need to see me. If you feel you’ve completed what is necessary and your portfolio does not appear below, perhaps you did not [...]

After the first month of working on your portfolios, you should have completed the following by Friday, 2/13: Securing an Identity Setting up Google Apps Installing a CMS Notice that I ask you to show me that you have completed each of these assignments within the assignment — particularly the last one. Few of you [...]

After you have chosen your domain name, purchased hosting, and did some initial setup on your ISP, it’s time to get serious. For this part of Writing for Digital Media, you will need to research and install a content management system, or CMS, as the main component of your web site. A CMS provides a [...]