Digital Communication 30 th September & 1 st October 2009
Setting Up Your Blog
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Digital Communication
30th September & 1st October 2009
Aims and Objectives
Aims • To promote methods of research using ICT and the internet• To introduce Blogs and web tools for learning, research and
evidence• Learners to set up their own ‘blog’ and publish a post
Objectives • Learners to discuses area they need to research in follow brief • Learners will be able to identity different ICT tools available for
assessment• Learners will be able to know what a Blog is and its uses. • Learners will be able identify a Blog though an example• Learners to create a blog account at blogger.com
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• The word blog (an abridgment of the term web log)• "Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or
add content to a blog.• A Blog is a website where entries are commonly displayed
in reverse chronological order. • The ability for readers to leave comments in an interactive
format is an important part of many blogs.
A typical blog combines • Text• images, • links to other blogs, web pages, and other
media related to its topic.
Most blogs are primarily textual, although some focus on art (artlog), photographs (photoblog), sketchblog, videos (vlog), music (MP3 blog), audio (podcasting) are part of a wider network of social media.
• Blogs can be hosted by dedicated blog hosting services, or they can be run using blog software, such as
• WordPress, • Movable Type, • Blogger • LiveJournal, • or on regular web hosting services.
• https://www.blogger.com/start • http://www.livejournal.com/
• http://www.movabletype.org/
• http://wordpress.org/
Summary / Q+A
• Q- What is the word “blog” refer to? • Q- Name three things a Blog can do? • Q- Name two blog websites?
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How to set up your blog
We want you to make your own blog You need to create a gmail or Google mail email account. This will be your username and password to log into your
blogger.com account. Use your FULL NAME when making your log in email for your blog So if you name is Joe Blogs then please can you [email protected] We also want your blog address to be something like this as well, http://joeblogs.blogspot.comThe . characters are not allowed
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How to set up your blog
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Press this buttonFollow the instructions
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Fill out this formMake sure every field is filled in.
REMEMBER YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS AND PASSWORD!!!!
I am Not your PA!
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Go to www.blogger.com/ sign in with your new Goggle mail address and passwordVERY IMPORTAN ! REMEMBER THESE
Go to www.blogger.com/ sign in with your new Goggle mail address and passwordVERY IMPORTAN ! REMEMBER THESE
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Go to www.blogger.com/ sign in with your new Goggle mail address and passwordVERY IMPORTAN ! REMEMBER THESE
Go to www.blogger.com/ sign in with your new Goggle mail address and passwordVERY IMPORTAN ! REMEMBER THESE
If you have a existing email address you can use this, if you don’t want a Google mail account.Google mail will be a bit faster to log on your blog
If you have a existing email address you can use this, if you don’t want a Google mail account.Google mail will be a bit faster to log on your blog
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Enter your email address And the rest of the fields, then press continue when done Enter your email address And the rest of the fields, then press continue when done
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Give your blog a title (this can be changed)Give your blog a unique address [YOUR NAME] Check if this is available, press the availability button, press continue
Give your blog a title (this can be changed)Give your blog a unique address [YOUR NAME] Check if this is available, press the availability button, press continue
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Choose a template, (this can be changed)Press continue
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That’s it!Press the start blogging arrow!
That’s it!Press the start blogging arrow!
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There are two ways you can view how you write your blogger post,
1. In HTML View
2. Compose view
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You can add web links by selecting a word and pressing the link button, this will bring up a window to add a http:// link, paste in a link from a site here,
To add an image (from hard drive or a web site) press the picture button, this will bring up a window.
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This is the image upload window.
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To add things like YouTube video clips, you can copy and paste Embed codes this will embedded the clip into your blog.
Select this and copy it,
And paste it into the html body of your blog,
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It will look like this.... Don’t worry will wont look like this when you view your blog
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You can also add video files to your blog as well Blogger accept AVI, MPEG, QuickTime, Real and Windows Media, 100 MB maximum size.Press this button and the video upload window will open.
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When you hit the Publish post button, it will remind you to add tags to your blog, these can easily add links and categorise your posts
Example Tags that you could use might be The subject which you are writing about, or the main content summed but in a few words.
To add a tag type in a word then a comma, this splits up the words to make tags to either search by subject or jump to.
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The Dashboard is the page is where you can manage your blog, If you wan to Edit or Delete a post then you can do it here. Click Edit Post
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The Setting Page is the place where you can set up your blog so that you can add posts to it via email. This means you can email the blog and it will appear on the page.
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From the Dashboard you can Edit Profile page
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