Blog Levels of Participation

Classmates may participate in this blog at several different levels of involvement, which are the following:

Full Participants: These folks are called Blog Team Members, and they can make posts to the blog. Before participating, they are issued invitations to be team members. Most people who participate at this level have some degree of Internet experience, although the Blogger website, on which this blog resides, has excellent Help files which explain many different aspects of the blog. I will be happy to issue a team member invitation to any class member who asks. The only requirement for a classmate to be a team member is to have an email address and to establish a free Google account.

Commenters: These people can look at posts that others have made and add comments, but they can't make posts themselves. Commenters do not have to be registered users of the blog.

Email Participants: These people are familiar with using email on the Internet, but they might not want to get involved with uploading pictures or making posts directly to the blog. If you'll email me information about yourselves and perhaps attach a recent photo, I'll see that it gets posted on the blog on your behalf.

Paper Participants: These folks would like to share some information about themselves on the blog, but the thought of entering it online or uploading photos is intimidating, and they'd rather not get involved to that extent. I would be more than happy to enter text and scan and upload photos for these classmates if they would like to send me the material through the mail. I'll even return photos if that is desired.

Browsers or Lurkers: These folks will look at the blog and read about their more active classmates who are contributing information and pictures, but they won't provide anything about themselves. While this is better than not participating at all, we encourage these classmates to share some interesting personal information.

We hope that you will choose to participate at some level and will share information about yourselves, so that when many of us meet in September, we will have renewed old acquaintances ahead of time.