So I hear that Jana is back with us and that Linda Lopez and Bob Myers have joined The COM3068 blog. I thought I would take a moment to welcome both Jana back to work and Bob and Linda to the blog and reiterate a few points about the blog and how it might function as a point of reference and discussion about the Managerial Communication course, COM3068.

At this point there are 6 of us connected to this blog. Caryn, Linda, myself, Kevin Wolf (Instructional Technologist), Jana and Bob.  All of us can post, edit and upload documents or other media to this blog. I invite anyone to post their thoughts and reflections on the COM3068 course or just about theories and concepts related to managerial communication in general, or even on teaching and learning.

At this point in time the blog is closed and can only be seen by the six of us. Though I would like to open it to the larger Baruch community I will keep it closed until the general consensus is ready to have it open for others to visit and in return for us to have Feeds and information from other faculty blogs here at Baruch. One issue was that there might be sensitive material or even exams and quizzes that students might be able to see if the blog were no longer password protected. However, for future reference we can password protect various elements or reference pages of the blog and have the rest of the blog open.  This is all for further discussion.

For the moment I want to draw your attention to the right hand upper corner on the blog where it is marked pages. Each one of the Pages are evolving reference spaces where we can go to retrieve information and documents to help teach or research various elements of the COM3068 course. Anyone of us can add to those Pages and or create a new page. All one needs to do is go to Site Admin all the way on the bottom right of the blog home page and click on it. Then put in your password, the one you used when you signed on as  a member of this blog. You will then have the possibility to click on Write a Post or Page. The rest is basically like writing a word document, to add an image or a document there is a small Add Media button on top of the text box. Click on this and jut follow the directions. If anyone has any problems just give me a call.

That’s about all I have to say for now, I am hoping that this is more of an open discussion blog and that it is not me and my direction alone that will guide the use of this blog as a reference for the development of the COM3068 course. Because if it is….We’re in big trouble…:)