Welcome to the Blogosphere

Presented by Paula Naugle

4th Grade Bissonet Plaza - JPPSS

Steps to Creating Your Blog

Go to www.blogger.com

Click on Create A Blog button.

or gmail email if you have one

or anything you want

Type in the title you want to appear on your blog.Type in your username. The URL to your blog will

be http://(username).blogspot.com

Don’t stress over this step. Click the radio buttonbelow a template that appeals to you. You can

always change it later.

Congratulations! Now you are the proud owner of a blog.

But before you post, fix your settings so that your blog is secure.

Setting Your SettingsNot so much fun, but important!

Will it be public or private?

Most school blogs are private

Do you want it to be searchable?

No, you probably don’t want it to be searchable.

Will others be able to author?

Sometimes several teachers write one blog together. If your students have email accounts you can allow them to become authors.

How public do you want your profile?

That’s personal and totally up to you if you are the author. If a student is the author, his profile should be protected.

Click on settings and you will see the page below.

You can change the

the Title and Description

later.

Change this from Yes to

No.

Leave these alone, scroll down and hit

If this is left as Yes it becomes searchable through the Google search engine.

After you you will see, “Settings Were Saved Successfully”. Now go to Permissions.

The first box is ‘Blog Authors’. If you are the onlyauthor you will not do anything here. If there are other

authors to be added click on Add Authors button, and you will be prompted to enter their email addresses.

Who are you going to allow to read your blog? Click on the radio button with which you are comfortable. (I allow Anybody to read my blog.)

If you want to restrict who can see this site then youmight want to change to this button.

Click This!

Then you would have to enter email addresses for everyone you want to invite.

Note: I allow Anybody to view my blog. Remember they can not find it by searching for it. I probably invited them to look at it or they are one of my students.

Click on the Dashboard link in the upper right-hand corner.

Click on Edit Profile link beside the picture.

Uncheck this!

Do not add anything to this page, just scroll down and…- - - - - - - - - -

This will show up, and if you click on the(View Updated Profile) you will see this…

.

This page should be followed if you have a student authoring a blog.As an adult, you can decide whether you want your profile to be public or not.

Are you ready to post? Well follow these directions to activate your account.

Go to the e-mail account you used when you registered and open the “accounts-noreply@google” message. You will see something like this

Welcome to Google Accounts. To activate your account and verify your e-mailaddress, please click on the following link:

http://www.google.com/accounts/VE?service=blogger&c=(really-big-number)&hl=en

Click the link,then click here.

Type in the e-mail address you used to sign up and your password.

ORType in the URL of your blog in the address bar

of your browser and sign in there.http:/(username).blogspot.com

The authorization email will take you to your new blog. The next time you wish to get there go to:

http://www.blogger.com

Remember to click on the Blogger logo when you need to get to your dashboard. .

Here are some blogs you can check out:

Paula Naugle’s professional blog http://plnaugle.blogspot.com

Paula Naugle’s classroom blog http://pnaugle.blogspot.com

Teachers Improving Learning Through Technology blog http://tilttv.blogspot.com/

Vickie Davis’ blog http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/