How To Create Blogs

Click on http://blogger.com
If you have a Google account(i.e. Gmail), then sign in with your username and password, click on Create a Blog (go to slide 4)
Otherwise set up a new Google account by clicking on Create your Blog now

Type in your email address
Retype your email address
Type in a password (8 characters letters and/or numbers)
Retype password
Type in a display name (could be your own name)
Type the letters in the Word Verification box
Click Continue

Type in a name for your blog, this is the Main Title of your blog
Type in a name for your blog address, click on Check Availability
Type in the Word Verification box
Click on Continue

Select a template (you can adjust the colours later)
Click Continue
A message will appear stating that your blog has been created. Click Start Blogging

Use the toolbar to change the font, size of font, bold, italicize or change the text colour. There are buttons for alignment and bullets as well. Don’t forget to highlight text that needs to be changed.

When you are in a published blog page
Click on Customize
Click on Posting tab
Click on Edit Posts
Click Edit on the post you want to change
When you are in the Dashboard
Click on Edit Posts
Click Edit on the post you want to change

It is a good idea to tag your posts with labels so that they can be searched for and grouped
Ideas for labels might be Curriculum areas such as ‘writing, math’ etc
Add the labels with a comma and space to separate them
You can add labels later by clicking on Customize and then Posting tab and then Edit Posts , click on the Post that needs labels

When you are in a blog page
Click on Customize
Click on Settings tab
When you are in the Dashboard
Click on Settings

Click Always to enable comment moderation (this means you can review comments before they appear on the blog) type in your email address
Type in your email address so that you can receive notification when somebody has left a comment on your blog
Click on

Click on the Permissions tab
Click on button if you are allowing more people permission to write on your blog, type in their email addresses
Click on the choice of Blog readers; Anybody, only people I choose (you can have up to 100) or only blog authors
Click on View Blog to see your blog at any time

Click on Pick New Template
To change a template click on each of the selections
Choose a variation of the theme
Click
When you are in a Blog Page Click on Customize When you are in Dashboard Click on Layout

Click on Fonts and Colours
To change colours click on each of the selections
Choose a colour from the colour palettes
When you click on the text font, a choice of fonts will appear
When you have finished making all changes, click
When you are in a Blog Page Click on Customize When you are in Dashboard Click on Layout

From your Blog Page
Click on Customize
Click on Posting
From the Dashboard
Click on New Post

Click on the Insert Photo button
Choose a Layout (none, left, center and right)
Choose an Image size (small, medium and large)
Click on the Browse button
Click on View Blog to see your blog at any time

Click on the Insert Movie button
Type in a title for your Video in Video Title
Navigate to where your video is saved
Click Open
Click on I agree to the Upload Terms and conditions
Click on
Click

Go to youtube.com and find a movie to embed
Click on the Customize button
Click on a colour border
Click on the ‘ Don’t include related videos’
Click in the box containing code
Press Ctrl C (or Command C)
Click on the Edit Html tab in the blog posting window, click where the movie is going to go
Press Ctrl V , click on the Compose tab and you will see the movie in the Posting box, click on

Click on Text
Type in a Title
Type in whatever text you would like to add to the gadgets side of your blog. This might be an introduction to you and what your blog is about
Click
You may need to move a gadget if it is not in the right place, just click on it and drag to place it

Click on Picture
Type in a Title (name of your Picture)
Type in a caption if you have one
You can choose a link or you can choose an image from your computer
To choose an image from your computer
Navigate to where your picture is saved on your Hardrive
Click Open
Click Save

Click on Link List
Type in a Title
(in my example I have made a list of useful websites)
Type or paste in the Internet address in New Site URL
Type in the New Site Name
Click on
Repeat procedure until you have all your links
Click Save when you have finished adding to the list

Click on Blog List
Click on Add a blog to your list
Type in a Blog Address
Click
To add more click on
Click Save when you have finished

Click on Labels
Choose whether you want to view your labels alphabetically or By Frequency
Click Save

Click on Slideshow
Click on Source and choose where to get your photos
In this example select Flickr
Click in the User Option
Type in your Username

Click on HTML/JavaScript
Type a title
Paste ( Ctrl V ) the code into the content box

If you have checked your Blog and you don’t like where a gadget is placed then you will need to move it. Click on the gadget (in this example My Blog List), click and drag it down to place it. Click You can edit a Gadget at any time by clicking on Edit You can delete a Gadget at any time by clicking on Edit and then

If you are creating this blog for a class you may want to remove the ‘Navbar’ as students could click on ‘Next Blog’ and it might have inappropriate material
When you are in a Blog Page, Click on Customize When you are in Dashboard, Click on Layout Tab Click on the Edit HTML tab In the HTML template Find a line of space anywhere on the template and type this code #navbar-iframe{height:0px;display:none;} Click on Preview to see if the Navbar has gone (if it hasn’t then you haven’t typed in the code correctly; note the style of the brackets) Click Save Template

If you have a Navbar
Click on Sign In, type in your User Name and Password and you will see the Dashboard appear
If you do not have a Navbar then type in http://www.blogger.com (just blogger.com will work)
Type in your User Name and Password and you will see the Dashboard appear

http://clustrmaps.com/index.htm Cluster maps
Type in your blog address and email
Press Ctrl A to select all of the code, then Ctrl C to copy
Click on a new Page Element , choose HTML , paste the code, type in a title, click Save
http://www.librarything.com/ Your Library
Join now with a username, password and email
Add books and comments
Click on Blog Widgets
Highlight the code and copy
Click on a new Page Element , choose HTML , paste the code, type in a title, click Save

http://passyworldofict.blogspot.com	60
http://jacquiscourses.blogspot.com	41
http://shaunwood.wikispaces.com	32
http://wellingpost-it.blogspot.com	20
http://bloggingtutorial.pbworks.com	14
http://web204digitalnatives.pbworks.com	13
http://wheretostartwithwikisandblogs.wikispaces.com	11
http://smc-sct.wikispaces.com	7
http://passyworldofict.blogspot.com.au	7
http://ktp09009.wordpress.com	6
http://www.fti-remixed.at	6
http://elearnweb2.blogspot.com	5
http://smcseminar.wikispaces.com	4
http://santaines.pbworks.com	4
http://passyworldofict.blogspot.in	4
http://www.ftiremixed.at	4
http://jacquiscourses.blogspot.in	3
http://fti-remixed.at	2
http://passyworldofict.blogspot.co.nz	1
http://boiteweb2.pbwiki.com	1
http://elearnweb2.blogspot.com.au	1
http://smc-pd.wikispaces.com	1
http://ftiremixed.at	1
http://www.google.nl	1
http://74.6.117.48	1
http://esltwitter.pbworks.com	1
http://fullcircle-ed.blogspot.com	1
http://immigrantteacher.blogspot.com	1
http://passyworldofict.blogspot.com.ar	1

How To Create Blogs

by Jacqui Sharp on Jun 30, 2008

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