Getting Started with Edublogs

Getting Started with Edublogs
http://www.edublogs.org

5 Minute Intro
http://edublogs.org/videos
Check out this link for very good tutorials

Creating your account
Navigate to http://www.edublogs.org
Click “SIGN UP HERE”
Complete the required information.
One person in your group will select “gimme a blog”, the rest of you will select “Just a username, please”
Click “Next”.
Go to your email account to verify your account.

Your Group’s Blog
The person who selected “gimme a blog” will have to do the following...
Create the blog’s address and type it in
Create and type in the Blog Title
Blog type = student
Language = English
Click “Signup”

Adding Group Members
To add your group members to your blog to edit it:
From the top menu, select “Users”
Then, select “Add Users”

Adding Group Members
Fill in your group members’ email addresses that they used to create their accounts.
Select “Administrator” for their role.
Click “Next” after you have entered all their email addresses.

Adding Posts & Pages
Select “Write” from the top menu.
Posts vs. Pages
Posts = on front page, newest on top, typical blog
Pages = static web pages, always there, linked to front page

Editing Posts & Pages
Select “Manage” from the top menu to edit, delete and manage all previous posts and pages.

Look & Feel
To choose your blog’s theme, select “Presentation” from the top menu.
Scroll down and select the theme you would like to have for your blog.
You can change it at any time!

Adding “Stuff”
Add more flavor to your page with widgets.
Select “Presentation” and “Widgets” to add elements to the side columns of your blog.

Need more Help??
Select your “Dashboard” first and see if your answer is there!
Click “Get help and support for all things Edublogs” and then “Video Tutorials”.

Credits
Created by Dianne Krause
May 2008
All images taken from http://edublogs.org

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Getting Started with Edublogs

by Dianne Krause on Jun 04, 2008

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