Welcome to the Blog | Dr. Petersen

About half of you have requested permission to sign up for the blog, and that's great. I have sent invitations to those first students. Remember, that you're publishing here, so make sure that your entries don't have distracting errors.

After we have a couple of assignments up here, I'm going to start assigning what I call Rhizomic Posts. Rhizomes are lateral, branching root structures that reach out across ideas and help us make connections. Your Rhizomatic Posts will be ones in which you read new material your colleagues are posting to the blog and old material that other students from past classes have posted and connect that material to what I talk about in class.

You'll want to know how to create hyperlinks in your post and here's how. Use the following code, minus the outer most set of quotation marks.

<a href="http://www.samplelink.com">Link Text</a>.

Make sure that you enclose that statement inside of the two side carats and type the code yourself. Don't try to copy and paste; it'll just mess you up.

I'll post more information on the Rhizomatic Posts in a little while, but practice putting links into your personal blog. It's really cool to write with links in mind. It's called hypertext, in case you need to know that for Jeopardy or Trivial Pursuit or something.