Happy New Year 2009

Happy New Year to all!

As you can see, we (the Talking People people helping out your adorable teachers at the English Department of EOI Goya) have been introducing some changes today, because we had to adapt to some changes which have taken place in WordPress and some questions by students. If you have any feedback, post here, please! 
We changed the Geometric Avatars for some kind of cartoons (those avatars are only for people who don’t have their own). If you don’t like them, just tell us. We have included a Search Engine, and at the bottom, a login link for our Authors/Contributors. We have sent out two invitations to students who want to become Contributors: to Lidia and to Alessandro. If anyone else needs to be able to start a thread, please get in touch by using the Question Page. To our Authors/Contributors:  In case you noticed, WordPress has improved the control panel. It’s the same, but different! If you have any questions, post them on the Questions Page.

Have a nice day!

Is any film worth seeing?

I have been looking for a good film we could see together in Original Version, without finding it. By the moment, the Film Club is at a standstill…

Shall we meet up?

Hello everybody!

Listen, I’ll be getting back to work towards the end of this month, and I was thinking we should meet up in the Computer Room one day to try to see if we all learn the basics about using this blog. I’m sorry we are not answering your queries daily, but at the moment we’re somewhat overwhelmed with work. This message is for all teachers and for all the students who are Authors and for the new students who wouldn’t mind becoming, or would love to become, Authors. So post here your suggestions of date and time to meet. Students have exams, but that’s only a couple of days. Teachers, on the other hand, have Exam Month, a whole month giving and checking exams, so I suppose we should have teachers first making the proposal of a date and booking the use of the Computer Room for that date… What do you all think? Gotta fly!

Hello everybody! Attention, please!

Hello, everybody, this is, teachers and students! Congratulations for your amazing participation. We know we don’t know how to manage yet! But… do you all remember that apart from posting we need to see how this blog works and create explanations to help people and finish designing the blog? Do you? OK. So… We haven’t finished doing some of the basic things, so please:
* “Authors” should click on the links called “Pages” and read it all. You need to know what it says there.
* “Authors” need to post on their corresponding “Page” (students’, teachers’) a comment with their description (remember this is the Net, an international public space).
* Missing “Authors” and “Contributors”. Now, there are some teachers and some students who are not “Authors” but should be, wouldn’t you want to? This means we need to make you “Authors”. When you are an Author you can edit your posts, start new threads and pick your personal avatar (graphic image). See our section “Pages” for more info. Well, these people seem to be so far: Carmen, Marta, Ana (teachers), Elena and Lady Silence (michelle’s students). If there are other students or teachers who want to register as “Authors” or “Contributors” of this blog, please, post here or on the “Page” called “Questions about this blog”. Only people we know can become “Authors” so get in touch with your teacher so that your teacher tells the blog admin who you are, whatever.

Greetings and keep having fun!

Answers to Help – Steps for Authors to start threads

I got your email, eoigoyainglés. I clicked on the link it had. It took me to a wordpress webpage with a form. I filled in the form, and below the “I agree to this fascinating terms of service” there were two round things: one for “just gimme (give me) a username” and “gimme a free blog”, or something like that. I don’t want a free blog, so I checked out the other option, to get a username. You can also get a blog and I suppose what follows applies, anyway. Then I panicked and left. Then I went to our blog, scrolled down and clicked on the worpress.com link.

When I got to the wordpress.com webpage:
1. I looked for the two empty slots where you type your nick and then your password (the ones I typed in when I filled in the form). Sometimes those slots are on your right, others they’re scrolling down down, on the left.
2. I did that, I typed my username and my password. Then…
3. and here I am. I have access to a control panel, so the 4 students who are Authors on this blog should have access too. I see the same things Dakota sees.

How can we, Authors, use this?
Well, if we just want to COMMENT on an already existing thread, we don’t need to go to the wordpress.com page, and type our username and password. We can just use this blog like we were using the other two, to comment. BUT…
If we want to pick an avatar (graphic image) and/or we want to start a thread, we need to sign in at wordpress.com. If we do, we have access to the control panel.

What do we do then?
After signing in…
If we want to pick an avatar, we’ll click on “Profile” on the top right corner.
If we want to start a thread (Authors, do so! to see if we all manage – later on we can delete them, no problem), we need to click on “Write” (top left corner) and then on “Post” (just below “Write”). Then we get the box to type a title and our message. Remember the title should be thematic, so we know what it is about.
Then we need to scroll down a bit till we see “Categories“, open that by clicking on the left-side grey/white arrowhead, then click on the light blue text that says “All Categories” and then tick one of the boxes with the names of the categories.
Then we scroll to where we were typing our message and look on the right. We’ll see “Save” and “Publish“. We click on “PUblish” and that’ll be it!
Then you can scroll a bit further up  and click on “Visit site” to see our Blog and if our post is there.

Is this helpful? Cheers!

Hello, everybody!

I’m Dakota. I’ve been granted the status of “Editor” and I’ve just signed in to see what this means. I have access to the Control Panel, which is a place that doesn’t look like the Film Club. Under the title “EOI Goya Film Club”, on the left, there are 4 things I can click: “Write” (I can “write” posts, pages, links), “Manage”, “Comments” and “Upgrades”. On the right, I see “Profile” and if I click on that, I can add info about myself. Below this message I’m writing I can tick the category I want to file this post under: if I click “All categories” I see them all and I’m going to pick “1-News & Chit Chat” to file this there. Now I’m going to click on a black box on my right which has two options “Save” and “Publish”, so I’m going to click “Publish”.

PS: I cannot see the control panel where there is a list of all the authors on this blog, only my own profile.

Help!

We’re all learning together how to use this sophisticated blog, so any questions you have and any explanations you can give of how to manage will be warmly welcome!

Welcome!

Dear explorers,
This blog is just a project in its exploratory stage!
You can post here your first comments, questions, suggestions…

 

Proposals to start threads

Supposing you cannot start a thread yourself, you can post here your proposals. Then we will start a thread on that and you can paste your comment or comment there. Do you agree with this system, or is there any other idea to deal with this?