Tips: How and where to participate in LCL

Sign up for email updates on the LCL homepage.

You can participate in a variety of ways:

• Discussion forums: That's here, in Discourse.
  Click or Discuss to get to the main list of discussions.

• Live sessions: Also known as "Unhangouts." You'll be able to participate in the live chat along with videos from the LCL unhangout on Tuesdays 1pm U.S. Eastern time.

• Videos: Can't join live? Here are the videos from Week 1.

• Activities: Each week there will be an activity (some digital, some physical).

• Twitter: The hashtag you can use is: #lcltalk . Follow us @medialabcourse .

• Locally: Look in Meet (and Map) to see if you can find others in your area. Or invite friends, family, colleagues to try the activities with you.

Not enough? If you're looking for other ways to engage...

• Virtual Groups: You can also invite or find out about times to discuss or hangout with others in the Meet forum. In the second half of the course, we'll be helping to arrange feedback groups.

• Previous LCL G+: Some people are still posting in the previous G+ community space (though we don't have time to weed through the spam, you can still join).

Get to know Discourse (my top 5 tips so far):

1. Sign up: Click height="27"> to make an account (you can use a Google account, or
   make a new Discourse account).

2. Edit your profile: Click your avatar icon at the top-right, then choose "Preferences." Add an image and a brief intro in "About Me."

3. Main page: Click Discuss at the top, or height="30"> to see all discussion categories.

4. Reply:
   to the main topic: Click at the bottom of the topic.
   to a post: click under the post
   to quote a previous post: click and then the button. You can edit the quote.

5. Change your email notifications: Click your avatar icon (top right), then choose Preferences, scroll down to Email checkboxes.

Explore and hover over icons to learn more! Please feel free to reply with any additional tips or questions.