Blogger "How to..."

Blogger: a web-based "Non-Punahou" weblog

Examples:

http://mrwatsonsclasspages.blogspot.com/

http://punahou-johnson-eng.blogspot.com/

*Google owns Blogger. Therefore, in order to use Blogger you must have a Google account…

1. Set-up a Google account: in the future, once you have a Blogger account, click on the Blogger icon on your Google account page- that will take you straight to your Blogger account 'dashboard'.

-go to google.com
-click on "sign in" (upper right corner)
-click on "create an account now" (lower right)
-fill in the required information. Use your ePunahou email address, as well as your ePunahou password.
-choose location (US), fill in word verification, and click on "I accept"
-check your ePunahou email to complete the set-up of your Google account

2. Set-up a Blogger account: after you set up a Google account, you will be prompted on the Blogger page: http://www.blogger.com/start to sign in. Just follow the easy steps:

-Sign up: display name, acceptance of 'Terms of Service'
-Name your blog: Blog title, Blog address (please keep names/ titles vague for privacy)
-Choose a template (you can always go back and change it later)

Blog Tools (Tabs):

Posting

Create- this is where you create an entry. You can title, label (tag), and preview it before publishing.

Edit- change or delete any posts/entries

Moderate Comment- See Settings

Settings

Basic- Here you can change the title or description of your blog. You can also alter the number of viewers by selecting 'No' under 'Add your Blog to our listings?'.

Publishing- you can change your blogʻs URL

Formatting- change time and language

Comments-change comment settings, such as who and how comments are done

Archiving- how to keep your posts

Site Feed-outside sites and feeds can be linked to your blog

Email- inform anyone through email of a new publish

Permissions- invite authors and readers to your blog (an author can automatically read, but a reader cannot automatically author)

Template

Page Elements- this is your blog page layout. Your page will automatically have elements, but you can always add an element by clicking "add a page element". Page elements can be link lists, newsreel feeds, and/or a media file.
*this would be how to create a class blogosphere. As the teacher you could create a class page and with a "link list", be able to link to all the student blogs.

Fonts and Colors- change your blog template fonts and colors

Edit HTML- to change page elements or bring in an outside element (such as a audio file player).

Pick New Template: need a new look?






Letʻs start blogging w/ Blogger!

1. Go back to Settings, Permissions, and invite two people near you to be authors. An email invitation will be sent out. You must accept this invitation to become an author or reader on another blog.
So- check your epunahou email now!

*As you become a member of other blogs, the list on your dashboard will grow.

2. Letʻs make link lists in our blogs. Get the URL and first name of the same two people you invited as authors. Go back to Template, Add a Page Element,, if Link List is not already there. You will title your list, type in the first URL and name it with their first name. View your blog to see how it looks and check the link.

3. Create a post!