Instructors: All (Jen, Jim, Amanda, Porter)
Topics: Introduction to the course, constructing an avatar, your first WordPress post, and arriving in Second Life
Pre-class Reading:
- None!
Post-class Assignment (due by 4:00pm EST on 9/29/2012):
- Finish constructing your avatar and add this to your WordPress profile (Dashboard > Profile and upload your image).
- Finish and publish to the course blog (Dashboard > Posts > Add New) your post introducing yourself, your reasons for constructing your avatar as you did (what persona does it project? could you see someone interpreting it in a different way?), and what you’re looking forward to in the class. You might also mention any digital skills you might bring to the course.
- Complete the reading for next week’s class (this won’t be listed on your post-class assignments after this day; in the future, you’ll need to both complete assignments and look ahead to next week’s page to do the pre-class readings for that day)