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.)
