1. Blogging with Google, Enhancing your Blog www.mariamwiki.wikispaces.com Ict.group9@gmail.comIct.group9@gmail.com (ict123456789)

2. Remarks Homeworks submission Presentation Next week Quiz Next Week ( 30 – 35 )

3. Outlines Blogging with Google Enhancing your Blog

4. Blogging with Google –B–B–B–Blogger is an online service used to create and maintain blogs –C–C–C–Create your own blog using a variety of templates Located at w w w w w wwww wwww.... bbbb llll oooo gggg gggg eeee rrrr.... cccc oooo mmmm Under “more” link from Google options

5. Why Blogging is Important To share thoughts with others Share your political opinions Keep in touch with family and friends Read the blogs of others

6. How to create your own Blog? 1.Open Blogger

7. How to create your own Blog? 2. Click on “Create Your Blog Now”

8. How to create your own Blog? 3.Name your Blog Give meaningful title and blog address 4.Choose a template The template contains fonts, colors, formatting so that you can focus on your blog rather than spending time in formatting. 5.You will get a notification telling you that your blog has been created

9. How to create your own Blog? 6.To start posting or to start customizing your template click Start posting link See Book Figure 7.When you are finished click Publish Post link 8.It will be displayed in the Dashboard

10. Read the blogs of Others View video blogs using YouTube See Blogger news by clicking “Blogger Buzz blog” link at the bottom Companies – To keep the public informed about the products Artists –To keep in touch with those who appreciate their efforts

11. Search for Blogs Go to blogsearch.google.com Type the topic in the search text box Then click Search Blogs

12. Enhancing Your Blog To Control Your Blog

13. Control the Content of the Blog Posts As an Admin (administrator) of the blog: 1.Edit the posting of others 2.Control whose postings become public 3.Control profanity (negative) comments

14. Using Settings to Control a Blog Contains 8 subtabs See Book Figure

15. Using Settings to Control a Blog 1.Basic: Display your blog in blogger.com so that others can see and search for your blog 2.Publishing: Change the address of your blog 3.Formatting: Change the number of posts displayed, date and time-stamp format, the blog language

16. Using Settings to Control a Blog 4.Comments: Determine who can comment and if you want to moderate the comments (see book figure). 5.Archiving: Determine how often the blog is archived 6.Site Feed: Determine how much of each post is automatically displayed 7.Email: Setup email address that automatically notifies you when someone publish to our blog 8.Permissions: Determine who can post to your blog, and who has Admin status

17. Arrange Elements on the Page Contains 4 subtabs: Modify the various options of the template you use Lets you add and arrange elements on the page To change the colors used in the blog page (see book fig)

18. Arrange Elements on the Page In Layout/Fonts and Colors –Upper pane contains controls that let you change colors in your blog –As you click a selection, the corresponding color in the Blog Page Sample changes instantly. –When clicking Pop Out link, the sample page enlarges and the controls moves to a new window

19. Arrange Elements on the Page To see how your blog will look like

20. homework Assign homework 5 (students book – page 44 to page 45): –Questions (1 to 6) –Questions (13, 14,17, 19, 20)