Hey all – as specified in our Getting Started post, you should have created a blog and checked the box for the search engines to index the site.I have encountered a couple of instances of your activity and sites disappearing from our streams. If you have gone into Settings –> Reading and checked the box to Discourage search engines you are making your blog and your class activity invisible on our site. post, you should have created a blog and checked the box for the search engines to index the site. It’s the only way your blog will show up in our activity streams. I have encountered a couple of instances of your activity and sites disappearing from our streams. If you have gone into your blog Settings –> Reading and checked the box to Discourage search engines you are making your blog and your class activity invisible on our site. Please unblock that box!
Students will be expected to use the course Web site multiple times a week to stay up to date with readings, assignments, and blogging. This is also a way for students to experience the emerging social nature of the web – similar systems are being used in library settings all over the world. Librarians are working, writing and sharing in open, online systems created for interaction with each other and with library users. The course site utilizes the WordPress software package to create an open, interactive environment for sharing and discourse. You must create an account on the site and publish an open blog but no one in class is required to share their full name, photo or any other details. The use of avatars and aliases is acceptable.