To blog or not to blog....?

To blog, of course! This semester has opened up a whole new world for me, and I'm enjoying it. Next Child was a great learning experience. I enjoyed the research, and writing the posts, but my true moment of triumph was when I was actually able to play with the CSS and modify my posts! Granted, I was following steps that a two-year-old could understand, but I was really delighted.

Over the semester, and especially with the work on Next Child, I feel that I have become comfortable in an area that I never would have been without this class. I can talk intelligibly about web 2.0 and blogging, and the word "rhetoric" has been popping up in my conversations at an alarming rate.

I never would have thought that a creative non-fiction class could look like ours did, but I am very glad it did. Thank you all for a great semester, and everyone for your help. Not only could I not have learned this without Donna, but I couldn't have learned it without the crowd wisdom of my classmates!

Expandable Post Summaries!

Ok, I'm sorry to Jake because he did mention this site as a bad blog, which, visually, it is. However, it's also really helpful if you can get past its garish design. Here's the exact link for the expandable post directions. They'll be on the pink side on the left. Follow the instructions CAREFULLY, and it should work out! The only downside is that I'm having to copy & re-post all my old posts to apply this to them, because it won't happen automatically. Not a big deal, though, because after doing this, you can just post-date them to the right days and they'll re-order themselves accordingly. Good luck!

Next Child progress

Thanks to everyone's input in class, I've made a few improvements to "Next Child," so if you have a second, please check it out and let me know what you think! (Especially about the new header) Also, I've e-mailed Donna about this, but if anyone else can help, I'm trying to find out how to shorten the post clips that my blog showed, like we talked about in class. I know it involves code, but I wasn't sure what... Thank you!