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Page 1: Finding your way around Edublogs

Finding your way around Edublogs

A ‘Blogging for Complete Beginners’ Guide

Page 2: Finding your way around Edublogs

1. Go to www.edublogs.org

2. Click on ‘sign up here’

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!

5. Choose a username and password that you will use to ‘manage’ your site

6. Once you have clicked ‘next’ you will have an email sent through to activate your account

Signing up for Edublogs

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BLOG TITLEPAGES• Click on these tabs to move to the different pages

WIDGETS:• links• calendar• clustrmap• etc etc

POSTS• These are like news stories; once a new one is added, the previous moves down

The blog site is what everyone sees: The dashboard is where you need to go to edit your site:

The Edublogger• Check these links out!

Used/remaining upload space• Keep an eye on this!

Your other blogs• You can set up lots of different blogs under the same account esch with 20MB of memory...

Your blog site and your dashboard

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Navigating round your dashboardAll my different blogs. You can have as many as you’d like under one username.

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

Support from Edublogs and other users

Write NEW

pages, posts &

links

Manage EXISTING

pages, posts &

links

Search for different themes (some

themes are more customisable than others) & manage

widgets

Approve, edit & delete comments made to your site

Only available to Edublogs supporters

To find out more about becoming an Edublogs Supporter...

ADVANTAGES: more features, use of ‘plugins’, more space (5GB as

opposed to 20MB), and more

Edit general settings of blog; timezones, date format, avatar, permissions etc

Only available to Edublogs supporters

Add users & other

admin i.e. fellow

teachers

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Writing PostsPosts 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.

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...

HINT: if two rows are not showing, click on the end right icon (kitchen sink)...

Insert music, files, videos and photos!

Tags & categories: these will help other bloggers narrow down their search – once your blog gets (alot) bigger

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Writing PagesThese 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

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...

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...

HINT: if two rows are not showing, click on the end right icon (kitchen sink)...

Insert music, files, videos and photos!

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Adding linksLinks 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

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

Save: Always remember to hit save...

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!

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Adding widgetsA 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...