Blogs - 20 Steps to Blogging heaven
-
Upload
adam-sutcliffe -
Category
Technology
-
view
1.255 -
download
2
description
Transcript of Blogs - 20 Steps to Blogging heaven
Blogs
20 steps to blogging heaven
Aims
to introduce blogging
introduce typepad blogging platform
start a blog
customise your blog
away you go
Literacy outcomes for A Curriculum for Excellence:
Definition of “texts” novels, short stories, plays, poems, reference texts, the spoken word, charts, maps, graphs and timetables, advertisements, promotional leaflets, comics, newspapers and magazines, CVs, letters and e-mails, films, games and TV
programmes, labels, signs and posters, recipes, manuals and instructions, reports and reviews,
text messages, blogs and social networking sites, web pages, catalogues and directories
Blogs
The Platform
www.typepad.co.uk
Step One
go to www.typepad.co.uk and click sign in
Step Two
enter the member name and password.
Can you guess the password?
Step Three
go to the account’s weblogs tab
Step Four
Create your blog
Step Five
give your new blog a name
Step Six
managing your blog
Step Seven
design your blog
Step Eight
configure your blog
Step Nine
think about the different categories your blog posts may come under
Step Ten
don’t worry, we are getting ever closer to your first post!!!
making your blog visible to the world
Step Eleven
setting your blog’s feedback options
Step Twelve
this is it...your first post
Step Thirteen
just like writing an email
Step Fourteen
time to enter the blogosphere
Step Fifteen
adding links to your blog
Step Sixteen
know any useful websites...add a link to your blog
Step Seventeen
Choose which blog you want to publish on
Step Eighteen
Back to design
Step Nineteen
Jazz up your posts
Step 20
Where do you want to go now
Some useful links
http://www.commoncraft.com/blogs - a short film about blogs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog - definition of a blog
http://www.scotedublogs.org.uk/blogs - index of blogs created by teachers and students in Scotland, examples of blogs across the curriculum
http://edu.blogs.com/edublogs/ - Ewan MacIntosh, bit of a guru in the blogosphere and the chap who got me going
http://thegordonschools.typepad.co.uk/asu/ - sometimes reflective sometimes ranting, but all mine