1. Everyone in the class, please use the “Sign-In -> Register” menu on the main menu bar to create a new account.  Please use your UNCW ID and email for your account name but your real name as you normally prefer it for your profile name.  Please complete the rest of the profile, too — take a few minutes and come up with some fun answers for the profile info.  If you have ideas for things to add to the profile, let me know.
2. Once you submit your registration, it will mention that you need to activate.  (It also may ask for an avatar picture right away, but that didn’t seem to work until after activated?)  Go ahead and check your UNCW email and click the link to activate your account.  Return to Sign In and choose “Login.”  You should have another small menu bar appear at the very top of the page.  Under this menu bar, choose “My Account,” “Profile,” and then “Change Avatar.”  Upload either a real picture or a drawing, painting, etc. of yourself (that looks like you). You can edit your profile answers here, too, and if we add more, later, they can be edited here.
3. (As soon as you have it, too, you should add your web address for your 320 portfolio site to the profile field for it).
4. Once you’re added to the site, and you’ve added your picture, the activity stream should show your new account and profile picture update.  You can add any status updates, comments, links, thoughts about assignments, things that relate, etc. here for the whole class to see. Good examples might be articles on animation that you find, links to Vimeo/You-Tube/Flickr that relate, etc. You might also post links here to your own site updates or own Vimeo video posts.
5. Also, you’ll be able to participate in forums.  You can create different topics as questions, discussion, etc. I’ve created a general discussion forum just to start.  Try it out once you’ve got your account going.

This may be a bit of a test-run, but hopefully it will be fun and useful, and we’ll be able to better coordinate the production later from here, share things of interest, etc. We might even come up with some other useful ideas for this along the way, too.  Have fun!