other blogs on campus and my first trial of Blojsom

I discovered that there have been some people on campus trying out blogs. Barbara Sholley used them last spring and Kathy Hewitt-Smith is using them in a Quest class in which they will blog here first and then travel to Bombay and continue the blog there! I’m not sure how Dr. Sholley used them, but plan to talk to her to find out what she did and how it went.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch, Kevin and Sue have been posting to a new ATS blog
that uses Blojsom. I have done a little posting there too, and am starting a test blog to see how I like it. First impression: it is more complicated than Blogger for a non-tech person. There are cryptic, one letter buttons that toggle on and off, though you are not told that they toggle on and off. I still haven’t complettely figured out how to put links in the text where I want them because you have to click the link button, type in or paste the url, then type the name for the link, then click link again. And I think you can only do this as you are typing or something–I couldn’t seem to go and add in a link in the middle of a line of text. BUT it is nice to be able to see what the post will look like when it is posted while I am still in the edit mode, and it would be nice to have help from our own ATS people when I need training or help. So- I plan to keep at it.