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Posting to the E-Anthology 2.0
After clicking on E-Anthology from the Community Page or from your "My Directory" tab, you will be taken to the "Welcome" page of the E-Anthology. The Welcome page will direct you to the menu on the left, where there are three different forums for posting your writing -- "Open Mic," "Classroom Matters," and "Day in the Life." Each of these forums asks for different kinds of writing. "Open Mic" is exactly that -- a place to post different genres of all kinds. "Classroom Matters" is intended to discuss all of your writing connected to the classroom. You can use this forum to ask questions and talk about what you are doing at your school. "Day in the Life" is intended to report what is going on in the summer institutes and workshops across the country. You can discuss particularly enlightening moments or questions a particular article raised for you. Throughout all three forums, readers are meant to respond to others' writing as an authentic audience.



Unique to the National Writing Project are the formal requests made by the teacher authors as to the level of response they would like to receive; these are "bless," "address," and "press." When using the "Open Mic" forum, writers should indicate which level of response they would like to receive. And when responding to others' writing, the reader should pay attention to the author's request. Here are the guidelines for each level of response, directly from the site:
 * **//Bless//** //-// A response of this type is limited to telling the author what is working in the piece, what the reader enjoyed.
 * **//Address//** - An author chooses this type of response when there is a specific element of the writing to which he or she wants the reader's response. An author may choose anything about the piece for the reader's response.
 * **//Press//** - This response allows the reader to respond in any appropriate way. The reasons for choosing this response type may vary from the authors not knowing exactly what they are seeking from a reader to an authors desire to shape the piece for reading by a larger audience.

There are some other very helpful tips and links to responding to others' writing within the E-Anthology community, found in the left hand menu underneath the forums. One strategy that is used often in the NWP is called Praise, Question, Wish, and it is explained at the bottom of the "Responding Tips" link.

Now that you know some of the guidelines, let's get started. To post something in the E-Anthology, follow the steps below: 5. Once you have copied and pasted or typed in your content, you are ready to add tags. Tags will make it possible for you and other community members to find your post. **The first tag you want to enter is "AWP"** --This will allow us to see everyone's posts from our site, without having to scroll through pages and pages of posts. Add other tags according to the content of your post. Tags that have already been used by someone else will appear in a drop down menu after you type the first couple of letters. The more tags you add, the more likely your post will be found by someone interested in your content and the more responses you are likely to receive. Tags are seperated by commas in the tag text box. 6. Make sure that the correct forum is checked. You can post to more than one forum at once, if the content fits for more than one. 7. Decide if this is a piece of writing you would like to add to your virtual portfolio. Your portfolio stays connected to your name and appears in your "portfolio" tab throughout all the NWP sites. You can choose to keep your portfolio private, or to make it public so others may view it. 8. If you are not quite ready to make this post public, you can save it as a draft and return to it later. (see the instructional videos under the "[|Answers to the Easy Questions]" link in the left hand menu to learn how to retrieve a draft.) 9. If you are ready to make the post public, you can click "Publish Now." 10. When you have clicked "publish now," your post will appear at the top of the page of the forum and is ready to be "liked" and commented on. Your tags also filter into the tag cloud on the E-Anthology home page. You can click on any of those tags and all of the posts associated with that tag will be found for you. 11. If you wish to make changes to your post after it has been published, you can do so by hovering your mouse over the post. The settings icon will appear and when you click on it, the edit option will appear to click on. The blog edit window will reappear, you can make changes and save those changes.
 * 1) Choose a forum and click on it in the left hand menu, based on what you would like to post (see picture above.)
 * 2) Scroll to the bottom of the first page and click on "ADD NEW ITEM"[[image:eanthology/posting 2.jpg]]
 * 3) A blog window will appear. You are required to put a title, even if it is just a working title. This makes it possible to search for the post later. If you make a revision and decide to post again, they ask that you use the same title and add "revision" at the end.
 * 4) Type the body of your post into the text box. Notice there are tools for formatting the text, copying and pasting from Microsoft Word, (which may be easiest for you) and for other word processing functions.

Congratulations! You now can post in the E-Anthology and are ready to learn how to respond to others' posts!