I maintain a frequently updated blog dealing with things that are important to me (Russian literature, leftist thought, video games, delicious food…and more! Yeah, okay, mostly I just ramble about what I did on any given day) at http://neon.note.amherst.edu/planworld/index.php?id=rruskin10
Read that if you’re interested; join planworld even if you are not particularly interested in my blog. Many cool people write there.
2 responses so far ↓
1 irradient (yhuang11) // May 23, 2008 at 12:45 am
I don’t even know how to use PlanWorld.
2 rruskin10 (rruskin10) // May 23, 2008 at 1:11 am
1. Go to note.amherst.edu/planworld
2. login with your amherst username and password
3. Here it becomes slightly more difficult: the little box in the top right with the button that says “finger” is a search box. The term finger is from computer language of the initial planworld a long time ago. You can type in the username of someone who you think has a plan: to see mine it would be rruskin10, but sometimes alumni do not have their class year at the end of their username.
If you type in ‘who’, minus the quotes, you will get a list of who is logged in at the moment. This pretty much guarantees that these people have plans, so you can click on them and read their plans.
4. If this plan loks interesting, you can add it to your planwatch (little blue link top center). This will eventually generate a list of people on the left side of your screen, and planworld will tell you when they update your plan, and then you can click to read them.
5. To write your own plan, go to Edit, also top right.
6. It is perfectly acceptable on planworld to read the plans of people you have not met in real life. (I was unsure about this for a while. Now I have even met some of the random alumns whose plans I read)
7. At the top left, there is the function “send”. This allows you to send messages to other users which are only visible by them.
8. Everyone on planworld reads the plan of megray. It’s an interesting place to start.
Anyway, this was more than was strictly necessary to get started. I hope more people from the classes of 10 and 11 join.
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