Blogs 20 steps to blogging heaven

20 steps to blogging heaven

Aims to introduce blogging introduce typepad blogging platform start a blog customise your blog away you go

to introduce blogging

introduce typepad blogging platform

start a blog

customise your blog

away you go

Blogs Literacy outcomes for A Curriculum for Excellence: Definition of “texts” novels, short stories, plays, poems, reference texts, the spoken word, charts, maps, graphs and timetables, advertisements, promotional leaflets, comics, newspapers and magazines, CVs, letters and e-mails , films, games and TV programmes, labels, signs and posters, recipes, manuals and instructions, reports and reviews, text messages , blogs and social networking sites , web pages , catalogues and directories

The Platform www. typepad .co. uk

Step One go to www. typepad .co. uk and click sign in

Step Two enter the member name and password. Can you guess the password?

Step Three go to the account’s weblogs tab

Step Four Create your blog

Step Five give your new blog a name

Step Six managing your blog

Step Seven design your blog

Step Eight configure your blog

Step Nine think about the different categories your blog posts may come under

Step Ten don’t worry, we are getting ever closer to your first post!!! making your blog visible to the world

Step Eleven setting your blog’s feedback options

Step Twelve this is it...your first post

Step Thirteen just like writing an email

Step Fourteen time to enter the blogosphere

Step Fifteen adding links to your blog

Step Sixteen know any useful websites...add a link to your blog

Step Seventeen Choose which blog you want to publish on

Step Eighteen Back to design

Step Nineteen Jazz up your posts

Step 20 Where do you want to go now

Some useful links http://www. commoncraft .com/ blogs - a short film about blogs http://en. wikipedia .org/ wiki /Blog - definition of a blog http://www. scotedublogs .org. uk / blogs - index of blogs created by teachers and students in Scotland, examples of blogs across the curriculum http:// edu . blogs .com/ edublogs / - Ewan MacIntosh, bit of a guru in the blogosphere and the chap who got me going http:// thegordonschools . typepad .co. uk / asu / - sometimes reflective sometimes ranting, but all mine

http://www. commoncraft .com/ blogs - a short film about blogs

http://en. wikipedia .org/ wiki /Blog - definition of a blog

http://www. scotedublogs .org. uk / blogs - index of blogs created by teachers and students in Scotland, examples of blogs across the curriculum

http:// edu . blogs .com/ edublogs / - Ewan MacIntosh, bit of a guru in the blogosphere and the chap who got me going

http:// thegordonschools . typepad .co. uk / asu / - sometimes reflective sometimes ranting, but all mine