Tutorial for Friday, Sept. 30, 2005 and Oct. 7

Due to illness, I won't be able to make it in to tomorrow's tutorial.

Please work on your blogs and make a few posts (at least one) by next week. And please send me your URLs (your blog's address) as soon as you've set it up so I can post it on the tutorial blogroll on this blog. Your blogs should be set up as soon as possible. Blogger.com should make it super ease for you.

Oh, and one thing I fogot to mention to you all: Turn off the "comments" function. You can do that in the "Settings" section of Blogger.com's administration section.

We'll go over how to perfect your blog and some tips and tricks for HTML next week. If anybody knows HTML fairly well, email me and maybe you can come up to the main computer at the front of the lab and give us some tips.

As far as naming your blogs, please include your full name in the URL address. That is, your blog URL should be in the following format: http://marcelovieta.blogspot.com . You can get creative in any other way except for this. It'll make it simpler for me and each other to know whose blog we're reading.

We'll be meeting in TEL 2027 next week for a full two hours. Please have Foundations Chs. 1, 3, and 4 read by next week and make one post about the first week's readings (Greene, Intro and Ch. 1). And don't forget to think about the meaning of "art".

Remember that there isn't a class on Oct. 4 but we'll still be holding the tutorial.

See you all next week.

Tutorial tomorrow will be in Vari Hall 3017, same room as last week.

Welcome to HUMA 1650's Friday tutorial's blog

Check back here often for updates I might add from time to time and especially check here before each tutorial to confirm where it'll be held, either in VH 3017, TEL 2027, or sometimes even somewhere else like the library or Calumet's computer lab).

Be thinking about your blogs and check out the software you'd like to use. I'd suggest blogger.com, it's the simplest to set up and use. There are others, though, so if you want to get more creative you can certainly do so. Remember that you'll need a common area on your blog to link to your colleagues' blogs. This class blog will serve as the main collective tutorial "blogroll". I'll explain all of this to you in tomorrow's tutorial.

We'll be holding next week's tutorial at the computer lab, TEL 2037, and we'll make sure you're all set up with your blogs. Please make sure you all have Acadlab accounts and yorku.ca emails. To find out how to do this, go to: www.yorku.ca/yorkweb/cs.htm, then click on "My Online Services", and then click on "Manage my Computing Accounts". If you haven't set up your Passport York account, you'll have to do this first before you can activate your computing accounts. You can do this at www.yorku.ca/yorkweb/currentstudents/ppystudents.html or by clicking the "New Students Sign Up Here" button when you try to access Passport York. Once you're in "Manage my Computing Accounts" you have to make sure that you activate the following accounts to be able to use the lab at TEL 2037: Acadlabs - PC/MAC Labs | Electronic Mail | Passport YORK | Web Page .

You do this by clicking on the "Activate New Services" in the "Manage New Service" page until the above four accounts have a green tick in front of them.

OK, back to the blog discussion: As an example for what we have in mind for your blogs (although it doesn't have to be this complex), here's my regular blog where I document my ongoing research for my PhD on workers' control in Argentina: www.vieta.ca/thoughts . Here's where you can get set yourself up with a blogger account: www.blogger.com/start .

Here are some useful lists comparing various blog software solutions, although, like I said, I suggest you stick to blogger unless you're really into the blogging thing: www.ojr.org/ojr/images/blog_software_comparison.cfm | radio.weblogs.com/0107846/stories/2002/10/03/blogSoftware.html | www.asymptomatic.net/blogbreakdown.htm .

See you all tomorrow.

Marcelo