Hopefully you’ve all now set up your blogs so they actually exist. I know one or two of you G&T students have gone a step further and started playing around with designs and things like that…
Your blogs are all now linked to on this blog (under ‘teacher blogs being developed’ on the right) so you can spy on each other and get competitive!
Today, we will look at:
changing your password
picking your ‘theme’ so your blog is customised
putting your own picture on the blog header if you want
writing your first post
We will hopefully also get time for:
adding pictures to your posts
adding links to your ‘blogroll’
embedding video into your posts (see the post below)
A couple of you asked me how to do this and I said I didn’t know but I’d find out…
So now I have…
This post here takes you step-by-step through the process. It’s from The Edublogger, a great site for tips on using Edublogs. I strongly recommend you subscribe to it, so you get regular emails, or at least add it to your favourites.
The only problem with the process of embedding ‘code’ so that a YouTube video plays in your blog is it seems for some reason to be a bit unstable so everything I’ve read recommends you do everything you need to do to your post and then add the link at the last minute, or it’s likely to go wrong.
That’s what I’m going to do now and hope it works, so you can have a nice bit of gratuitous and entirely non-educational nostalgia with your CPD (and if you’re too young for it to be nostalgic, please don’t tell me. I’ll only get upset.)
Thanks for coming to the first session today. Just a reminder of what to do before the next session, on Thursday 29th January.
Wait for your confirmation email to come, with your password and a reminder of your blog address
Write down your password so you don’t forget it!
Click on the link in the email to your blog. It should look a bit like this:
Find the ‘log in’ link towards the bottom right and log in, using the username you entered right at the start of the setup process (probably your initial and surname) and your password.
If you have any problems with any of the above, email me or pop up to room 204 and I can look at it with you.
Next week… making your blog look beautiful and writing your first post…
