Hello world, I'm talking about creating a post in the discussion board in blackboard.
This is part of your professional life.
This is not the time for text message style writing. 
This requires academic writing.
I suggest that you type your responses in a word processor,
correct the grammar and spelling and then copy and paste into blackboard.

One of the first posts that you will be asked to write
is to introduce yourself to your classmates.
I'm going to click create thread
and you'll see a description it says, "Introduce yourself to your classmates."
I would write my name here.
and then you type or paste the code that you've written.

if you would like you can include bold
or italics,  this editing is very similar to what you might do in a word processor.
We can also create bullet points.
and I'm going to click that,
and type something in the next bullet.

If we want to make these links that we can click on,
select that and then click the link button
and we're going to pick to put in the link we want to have,
Either type it or paste it.
Usually you want to say open in a new window.
Give it a title.
Then over here you're going to see you an insert button.
And that's made that into a link.

When we're finished with our bullets,  we hit enter again we're out of that.
If you try to copy and paste a picture, for some reason it doesn't work very well.
So what we're going to do is save the picture to our computer.
It needs to be somewhat small, I would say about 100 x 100 pixels is about the right size.
We're going to click insert an image,
and pick browse my computer
Let me scroll down here to find what I'm looking for...
and describe it, and then there's button over here that says insert.
and you can see, there's the picture.

Scroll down here, you're going to see a button that says submit.
and then you can see the post you just made on the list of threads.
and somebody else could click on that.
and then they're going to reply to you
and say something like "Hi Janet, nice to meet you." 
and again, go down here and hit submit.
And that's it!