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Finding your way around Edublogs

Finding your way around Edublogs. A ‘Blogging for Complete Beginners’ Guide. Signing up for Edublogs. 5. Choose a username and password that you will use to ‘manage’ your site. 1. Go to www.edublogs.org. 2. Click on ‘sign up here’.

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Finding your way around Edublogs

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  1. Finding your way around Edublogs A ‘Blogging for Complete Beginners’ Guide

  2. Signing up for Edublogs 5. Choose a username and password that you will use to ‘manage’ your site 1. Go to www.edublogs.org 2. Click on ‘sign up here’ 6. Once you have clicked ‘next’ you will have an email sent through to activate your account 3. Choose a blog domain name: CHOOSE CAREFULLY this will be the url/web address that students use to get to your site 4. Choose a blog title – this can be changed later!

  3. Your blog site and your dashboard The blog site is what everyone sees: The dashboard is where you need to go to edit your site: • PAGES • Click on these tabs to move to the different pages BLOG TITLE • Your other blogs • You can set up lots of different blogs under the same account esch with 20MB of memory... • Used/remaining upload space • Keep an eye on this! • The Edublogger • Check these links out! • WIDGETS: • links • calendar • clustrmap • etc etc • POSTS • These are like news stories; once a new one is added, the previous moves down

  4. Navigating round your dashboard Support from Edublogs and other users Click here to visit site – I prefer to open site in another tab and click refresh after every change – then I don’t navigate away from the dashboard All my different blogs. You can have as many as you’d like under one username. Search for different themes (some themes are more customisable than others) & manage widgets Only available to Edublogs supporters Edit general settings of blog; timezones, date format, avatar, permissions etc Add users & other admin i.e. fellow teachers Write NEW pages, posts & links To find out more about becoming an Edublogs Supporter... ADVANTAGES: more features, use of ‘plugins’, more space (5GB as opposed to 20MB), and more Manage EXISTING pages, posts & links Only available to Edublogs supporters Approve, edit & delete comments made to your site

  5. Writing Posts Posts are like news stories; once a new one is added, the previous moves down the page, most recent post at the top. Title: this is what will show at the top of your post. HINT: if two rows are not showing, click on the end right icon (kitchen sink)... Insert music, files, videos and photos! Publish or save? You can either publish a post (which means it will immediately appear on your site) OR save a post and publish it at a later date... Tags & categories: these will help other bloggers narrow down their search – once your blog gets (alot) bigger 

  6. Writing Pages These are separate ‘pages’ on your blog. These can be titled however you want and will show up along the top (or sometimes down the side). Title: this is what will show at the top of your blog – make it short  Insert music, files, videos and photos! HINT: if two rows are not showing, click on the end right icon (kitchen sink)... Publish or save? You can either publish a page (which means it will immediately appear on your site) OR save a page and publish it at a later date... Password protect: if this is an area you want to protect for only select people, protect it with a password Page parent: If you only want this page to show on certain pages, select it here. For example, you might have a parent page called ‘English’ with reading & writing as separate pages within it...

  7. Adding links • Links are great to put on your site:- • to useful resources • to other blogs • to games Name: this is what will show in your list of links – keep it short  Save: Always remember to hit save... Web address: Self explanatory! Description: When the mouse hovers over the link, this description will show – tell them what they will find at the link Categories: These are subtitles that organise your links. Easier for a visitor to find what they are looking for! HINT: Select ‘_blank’ target – this will mean that the link will open in another tab and won’t navigate away from your blog site!

  8. Adding widgets • A widget is just a piece of extra information on your site. It could be a:- • map • calendar • search tool • RSS feed These are all possible widgets available for free on edublogs BUT... Sidebar 1 or 2? Depending on your ‘theme’ you might have 2 sidebars or just one. Bear this in mind when organising your widgets! The ‘text’ widget allows you to add html (code) from any other site – like clustrmaps, shelfari, voki etc Save: Always click on ‘save changes’ otherwise you will lose your changes...

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