Setting up your blog

B L O G G I N G !G E T T I N G S E T U P

Go to www. blogger.com…Sign in with your Google account…Click New Blog

Choose a title and address for your blog.

Pick a template (You can change it later)

My blog has a boring title. Sorry. You do not have to use your real name in your blog title or address. This is public so ple

This is what your blog looks like in “view” mode.

This is what your screen looks like when writing a blog post

As you’re writing your post, hit save regularly. You can publish it when you’re done. If you’ve saved your post but can’t find i

First, go to www.blogger.com

Click the arrow next to the icon that looks like pages and then click Posts

I can either keep editing or publish my post.

ADDING A PICTURE

Once you click on Choose files, find the file on your computer.

That’s better. I also made it a bit smaller to hide my wrinkles.

I also want to add a link to my website. So I’ve highlighted the text I want to be the link and then clicked link…

Well that was easy! Since I already had the url there it just automatically. But if it was just a word,

…it would prompt me to enter the url.

When I hit “Publish”

it prompted

me to share

on Google + but I

don’t want

to so I’ll hit Cancel.

To find my URL to share with you, I click View Blog. My URL is what you see at the top.

ADDING BLOGS TO FOLLOW

Make sure you’re at www.blogger.com and click Add

You will get a list of your classmates’ blogs from me. When you do, add them to your reading list. You can add more than one blog at a time so it shouldn’t take too long. Just copy and paste each URL and click add. Then once they’ve all been added click

HOW TO COMMENT

Go to a classmate’s blog. At the bottom of a post you’ll either see “No comments” or “# Comments”. Click on that.

Ideally, you should comment using your actual name. If you have privacy concerns though, talk to me and we can figure somethi