How to start blogging with students

Today, we will look at:

• picking your ‘theme’ so your blog is customised (though you may have done this already)
• putting your own picture on the blog header if you want
• writing your first post
• adding pictures to your posts
• The difference between posts and pages
• adding links to your ‘blogroll’
• embedding video into your posts (see the post further down)

If we don’t get time for them all, we’ll continue next week, where I want us to look at managing and moderating comments.

Welcome to the blogging course!  Today, you will get a blog address and begin to set up your blog.

Before the end of the session, please save this blog address to your favourites:

http://apstrainingblog.edublogs.org

You also need to save your own blog address to your favourites, so you don’t forget where it is!