How to Create 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