Blogging for Beginners

Contents Understand blogging and blogs Join Blogger.com Create a blog Post Change template Edit post Widgets RSS feeds

What is a blog? Platform Not a web Ease and immediacy Date - recent

Why blog? Have presence Share information Develop community Publicise matters Say something Receive comments

Costs Time – can be slow Money – $0.00 and R0.00 Where they make their money - ???

Interface Year Open a month Get comments Postings Side bar Widgets Footer Dates Tags Atom

Join Use Blogger as it is part of the Google stable – can link to Reader, Gmail, etc. Name must be short, clear, one word, meaningful, no caps, memorable

Select Template Learning Opportunities © Pam Miller 2007

Complete profile Do not be silly Privacy important Identity theft Learning Opportunities © Pam Miller 2007

Create a post / publish / view / edit Learning Opportunities © Pam Miller 2007

Change colours, fonts and sizes Learning Opportunities © Pam Miller 2007

Do - More Create posting – do in Word and paste to blog Insert an image – position it

Insert image

Links Create posting and link to any web page Always have text description for image and video Create posting and link to image in Flikr Create posting and link to movie in Youtube

Do - Edit Edit titles Edit labels Edit text

Widgets Talking Avatars, e.g. http://www.voki.com/ Visitor statistics Weather Google map Calendar Poll, e.g. http://www.pollsnack.com/ Go online and look for Blog widgets Learning Opportunities © Pam Miller 2007

Adding elements – Widgets 1

Adding elements - Widgets 2