Start Blogging at LIS

LIS has moved to a whole school blogging platform, making blogging eas-ier and more effective for teachers and students at LIS.  If you or your stu-dents are blogging or creating websites, please use the LIS blogging plat-form.  It is supported by EduBlogs, which is the educational version of Wordpress.   Want to start your blog today?  

• Go to http://blogs.lisluanda.com/ • Sign in using your school username and password (same one you use

for email and signing into computers) • Once you are in, click on "My Sites" • Then, Click on  "Create a New Site" • If you are blogging for your class(es) only, please make your "Site

Name" (aka site url) your username or some version of it.  For exam-ple, Sou Leong's url is http://blogs.lisluanda.com/msleong/ and Tim Seccombe's is http://blogs.lisluanda.com/seccombe. 

• If you are blogging for your year level, please make your site url "yeartwo".  It would look like this:  http://blogs.lisluanda.com/ yeartwo .

• You can make the "Site Title" of your blog any fun name you want!• When creating your blog, I recommend you set "Privacy" to "Only ad-

ministrators can visit - good for testing purposes before making it live. "  When you are ready to go live, you can change it to whatever privacy setting is most appropriate for your year level, school and blogging purpose. 

• There is a Human Verification Step before clicking "Create Site" which requires you to click on the PICTURES of the CATS:  Unusual… Just click on the actual pictures of the cats, not the link that says "Adopt Me". Then click "Create Site!".

• You are now ready to set up your blog and share with the LIS commu-nity (and the world?)!  To get started, please visit http://help.edublogs.org.  They have three very useful ap-proaches to starting blogging.  ◦ Getting Started With Your Blog : This runs you through the steps

included above all the way to sitting pretty with pages, posts, widgets and a fancy theme.

◦ The Student Blogging and Personal Blogging   challenges are designed to run you through a series of challenges on your way to blogging success. 

◦ The User Guide is visual and easy to access what you need when you need it.

 Migrate Your Wordpress BlogHave you already started your blog under a Wordpress site and need to transfer it to our EduBlogs platform?  Follow the directions above to create your new blog address and then follow these instructions to migrate your old blog over. 

This link provides the same instructions I've included below, but with screenshots: http://help.edublogs.org/2011/08/21/importing-your-content/

1.  Log into your original blog dashboard.2. Go to Tools > Export. 3. Click on Download Export file and save the file onto your hard drive.4. Log into your new blog dashboard. 5. Click on Tools > Import.6. Click on WordPress.7. Click on Choose file and browse to locate the Export file you saved on

your hard drive.8. Click on Upload file and import9. Select if you want to assign the posts to an existing user on the blog or

import the author.10. Select ‘Download and import the file attachments‘ and then

click Submit.

You will need to manually set up your blog theme and widgets. This will im-port all pages, posts,  comments, files.

Need help? Use the Edublogs help site: http://help.edublogs.org. If you’re still stuck, talk to Ms. Katy in the secondary school and Ms. Chang in the primary school.