Just wanted to say thanks to all of those who were so kind and supportive with their comments on my blog post. You all were so nice, in fact, that I felt I wanted to share the few things I know that make my life a whole lot easier.
I was thinking, "geez, I don't know that much about what I'm doing; if these folks like what I'm doing, maybe they'd like doing it, too. I'd better tell them how, in case they want to join in the fun."
What I'm saying is, please don't take me for a know-it-all. I do the things listed below and they make my life easier, and I want yours to be easy, too, and maybe not everyone knows these things.
While I am not an expert (you're basically about to read everything I know), I wanted to share a few keyboarding tips that help me get around the internet and type in my blog without having to take my hands off the keyboard; I find it makes things more efficient once you get used to them. If you're in html mode, you can do the following things:
Italics: just type < i > (without the spaces) before your text and < / i > (same thing. no spaces to make the "tag" work) after it. It's very important to do the second step... otherwise everything in your post after it will be in italics. These days, blogger lets you know when you've forgotten to "close your tag". This means that you didn't type the < / i >< b >
Bold: < b > before your text and < / b > after it. Same story about closing the tag.
Underline: < u > and < / u >
Start a new line of text: just type < b r >. You don't have to close this one.
If you're in compose mode, you should be able to just hit ctrl and i or command and i... b for bold, u for underline.
General internet keyboard shortcuts.
Back shortcut: If you want to go back to the previous page, you can hit ALT and the left arrow key on a windows PC or Command and back arrow on a Mac. Do the same thing but with the right arrow key to go forward to the page you went back from. Find in page: this one makes discussion board searching and syllabus searching very fast if you know what you're looking for. Just hit CTRL and F in Windows or Command and F on a Mac.
Get your exact search terms: just in case you weren't as lucky as I was to be taught this in middle school... put quotation marks around something in a google search if you want those precise words and in that order. The quotes basically turn phrases into single words.For example, if you are looking up song lyrics, you could get a lot of random results if you just typed the words do you want me sugar lyrics in the search box. But if you type "do you want me", any results you get will have those words in that order.
I'm having great fun working with everyone! See you on the disc... I mean, blog posts.
~Michael B. Tate
P.S. If you're on a site like Facebook or Twitter that doesn't let you customize the text, use all caps for bold/to shout at people (pretty generally known... again, forgive me if you already know this) and surround with asterisks the text you want to emphasize. E.g. If I want to write "I really need to get this reading assignment done!" on Twitter, I will write "I *really* need to get this reading assignment done!"
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