How To Do This Stuff at Home

Here are details of the preparations I made before the workshop to create the "Media Map Mashup"

Well not yet actually. Being Lastminute Thompson I'm just now doing the session notes. I'll probably get these notes done after the event so just return to http://magimed.blogspot.com/ to check from time to time. If it doesn't happen you can threaten/cajole/offer bribes at s.d.thompson@tees.ac.uk.

Well I think I'll blog this as I do it. Will give me a break from the tedium of creating 75+ accounts.

This is one of the greatest hassles of doing this stuff. You need to create multiple accounts for the learners. In some instances it may be possible to have all learners create their own but you run the risk of them not being properly hooked to your project. You could create accounts at the start of a course or session but you have to be certain that learners have online access to their email accounts for email verification which all of the web 2.00 providers require. I have a sneaky workaround for this but it is so sneaky I'm not sure how to put it into words, I'll come back to that later.

Last night I created 26 YouTube accounts for this project. Why 26? - well I need 24 accounts for this session and I already lost number 12 YouTube account (something went wrong) This morning I'm making blogger accounts and I've blown number 13. This happens because of the tedious repetitiveness of the process. If someone has a better way I'd be pleased to hear it.

I forgot to blog about the YouTube accounts so I'll come back to that.

Here goes with the Blogger accounts.

I've not yet written about how to set up a blog but it's dead simple. I'll get into that later, for now lets assume you have a blog up and running.

1. You need to be logged on to your blogger account
2. Go to >>> settings >>> permissions
3. Click on Add Authors
4. Enter all the email addresses of the people you wish to invite separated by a comma.
5. The invitees have to accept this invitation and create an account. If it's you creating an account you have to be able to access all these email addresses and go through the process.
6. As the user (or you) clicks on the accept invitation link they are asked to set up an account. Once set up they (you) can accept the invitation and the blog that all these learners will share will show up in their (your) dashboard

Ok two hours later and I have 26 (-1) verified blogger accounts.

Thankfully creating Community Walk accounts is so much easier. You still need access to email verification

1. Go to www.communitywalk.com
2. Click on login
3. click on "signup"
4. Enter email address, username, and password.
5. A verification email will be sent to the email you specified
6. What I do now is hit the back button
7. The details you just entered are still there
8. Increment the account number eg email1@blah.com becomes email2@blah.com and username blah1 becomes blah2 etc - of course you have to have access to email1@blah.com to verify it.