Edublogs+How-to



Aww Come on..... It won't be that bad. I promise.

[|What is a blog?] media type="custom" key="678985"

Examples of blogs:
By teachers: [|Music with Mrs. Muench] - my classroom blog [|Kathy Cassidy] [|Mrs. Polito] [|List of blogging educators] [|Discovery Education Illinois Blogs (look in right hand column)]

By Students: [|Maroon4] - a group of 4 boys who are composing on their own time!

Some things to notice: email subscription, search, categories

Let's get started:

[|www.edublogs.org]

To do:

Users tab, Your Profile:
check box for "use visual editor" fill in info change "display name publicly" if needed

Settings Tab, General:
Title and Tagline of your Blog Change email if needed

Settings Tab, Discussion:
set your comment preferences

Design tab
Pick a template - consider how much side bar space you'll need Widgets - What can they do for you?

Write tab
Write Post Don't forget about categories! Write Page

Manage tab
Here's where you edit published posts and pages

=Is your head full yet? = =  = = = = = = = = = = = = Come on you know you want a links page! = = = = Here's [|mine!] =

A links page in [|del.icio.us]  that you can embed into your edublog media type="custom" key="679103"

[|Edublogs Video helps]

= = = = = Other sites you might find helpful: = = = [|Flickr] - for pictures [|Docstoc] - for files [|Survey Monkey] - for surveys [|Youtube] or [|Teachertube] - for videos [|Google Docs] - for Word-type documents [|50 Useful Blogging Tools]