The document provides steps for creating a blog using blogger.com, including establishing a purpose, creating a Google account, naming the blog and choosing a template, which allows the user to then personalize settings and make the blog private so it does not appear publicly.

1. Steps for Creating a Blog Using blogger.com
1. Establish a purpose for your blog.
-on-going class discussion on a single topic
-weekly discussion about different topics
2. You need an email address.
-for the purposes of this site, it will be known as your “Google Account”
3. Go to www.blogger.com.
Click here…
4. Create a Google Account
-follow the screen prompts
-click on orange arrow to continue
5. Name your blog
-type your blog title as per usual
-as part of the URL, the title must be typed in lower-case letters with no
space between words
-click on orange arrow to continue
6. Choose a template
-select the format of your choice; click on the box
-click on orange arrow to continue
Your blog has been created!
-personalize the settings, including making the site private so that it does not

2. appear on the server’s list of blogs
-when you select “start blogging”, select the “settings” tab and you can establish
the security parameters for the site:
Selecting “NO” from the drop-down menu secures your
blog. Only people who are given the URL know it exists (i.e
parents, students and administration)
-“muck around” in the Posting and Layout tabs and you can personalize the
blog to look as you wish