PGC Update: An Invitation to Students Wanting to Learn Website Administration

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PGC Update: An Invitation to Students Wanting to Learn Website Administration

A message to all members of The Global Cooling Collective

This is Mr. Burell in Seoul. I just bought the projectglobalcooling.org web address (”domain”) from godaddy.com, and am going to teach any students - in any participating country - the process of creating and administering that website. (That site will be empty until we install everything to get it running next week.)

It’s a real-world skill for the 21st century.

We’ll use Yugma.com’s free desktop-sharing to let you learn this. You’ll be able to watch the process, and talk with the rest of us on Skype, as we go through the steps of:

1. Renting a host server for the site.
2. Installing WordPress blogging software on the server.
3. Adding plugins and other add-ons to WordPress to make it do more cool stuff.
4. Being the website administrator.

If you want to learn, just reply soon - like, by this Saturday, 29 September.

While I have you: thanks to all of you who are in. It’s only natural, since the school year has just started, and what we’re trying to do has never been done before, for there to be “messiness” right now. Hang in there, and don’t hesitate to contact me, the Seoul students, or anybody else with questions or ideas.

Finally, a cool update: Timothy Stott, a student in Kazakhstan, is visiting Paris right now, and seems to have succeeded in getting a “Paris” group on the Global Cooling Collective Ning.

Timothy, whether France comes through or doesn’t, you’re already a star for doing your part to give them a start.

Get in touch if you want to host your country’s PGC website - and do it soon!

Thanks,

Clay Burell

About The Global Cooling Collective
The “Year of Global Cooling” network in cities worldwide, planning student-organized and -promoted global Earth Day concerts. A “live earth” movement for local bands and green-minded students. All concerts streamed online. Join!

Click here to visit The Global Cooling Collective!
http://globallycool.ning.com

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