Creating a Blog
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The document discusses blogs, including what they are, popular blog platforms, how to find blogs, and how to start a blog on Blogger. Some key points: - Blogs are a chronological series of website updates that function like an online diary. Popular platforms include Blogger, WordPress, and Tumblr. - To start a Blogger blog, create an account through Google, name your blog, choose a template, then you can write and publish blog posts and add images and links. - Features of blogs include comments, spam filters, RSS feeds, tagging, and publishing controls to customize the blog and share content.
Creating a Blog
- 1. Blogs!
- 2. What are Blogs? *Mash-up of “web” and “log” *Blog is a chronologically ordered series of web site updates *similiar to a diary *used to document and share hobbies, passions, foods etc.
- 3. Blog Search Engines *technorati technorati.com *Google blog search www.google.com/blogsearch *Blogdigger www.blogdigger.com
- 4. Favorite Blogs www.designsponge.com www.thesartorialist.com www.thestylerookie.com www.zephoria.org www.socialmediacollective.com www.culturedigitally.com www.readwriteweb.com www.mashable.com www.davidlebovitz.com
- 5. Blogs in Education *Document an experience *Share thoughts and ideas *Multi-media presentation *Comment on each other’s posts *Glimpse inside other’s brains *Very easy to get up and running *Good introduction to writing about a new subject area
- 6. Blogs *Wordpress (can be hosted/ installed on server) *Blogger (Google) *edublog *tumblr (image oriented)
- 7. Key Features *usable publishing interface or control panel *comments *spam deterrents *pinging *RSS feeds *tagging
- 8. Starting a Blogger Blog
- 9. Step One *Create an account: 1. through a google account or 2. through blogger
- 10. Step Two To sign up for Blogger by using a Google account: 1. Type your google account username and password into the appropriate text boxes on the Blogger home page (www.blogger.com) 2. Click sign in (the blogger dashboard appears) 3. Click the new blog link in the dashboard.
- 11. Step Three: Name your Blog 1. Type the name of the blog in the blog title text box. 2. Choose your URL and type it in the blog address text box (Google will notify you if it is available) 3. Select one of the template style shown by clicking on the image 4. Click the create blog button.
- 12. Step Four: Using the dashboard *When blogger sets up your blog, it adds it to a dashboard *To write a blog post, click the orange pencil button next to the name of your blog
- 13. Step Five: Adding a link: *Highlight the text that you want to make clikable by clicking and dragging *Click the Link icon *Enter the URL of the website to which you want to link and click OK
- 14. Step Six: To add an Image *Click the Add Image icon *Click the Choose files button to upload an image on your computer *Locate the image that you want to upload from your computer and select it *Click open *Click add Selected from the lower-right corner of the Upload screen *Select the image and then choose your image formatting options
- 15. Publishing your Blog *Before publishing you can Preview or Save as a draft *When you are satisfied click the orange Publish button at the top of the page
- 16. Customizing Your Blog *Choose a new template *Template designer