Transcript Welcome to the World of Blogging

Welcome to the World of
Blogging
By Mr. Tracy Kutscher
What is a Blog?
• Wikipedia states that a blog is a website
where entries are commonly displayed in
reverse chronological order. "Blog" can also
be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or
add content to a blog.
• Basically it is an interactive website between
you and the public.
What is a blog used for?
• 4 main reasons
– Journaling
• surgery.mattkutscher.com
– Give Information
• tkutscher.wordpress.com
– Portfolios
• Put one’s work online
– Communication
Why use a blog?
Communication
1. Teachers to parents
2. Teachers to students
3. Vice Versa
Howard Dean
• Democratic Presidential Candidate in 2004
• His approach organizationally was also novel. His
campaign made extensive use of the Internet, pioneering
techniques that were subsequently adopted by politicians
of all political persuasions. His supporters organized realworld meetings, many of them arranged through
meetup.com, participated in online forums, donated
money online, canvassed for advertising ideas, and
distributed political talking points. In terms of money,
publicity and activism, Dean therefore quickly staked out
a leadership position in the field of candidates. In this
way, he was able to bypass existing party and activist
infrastructure and built his own online network of
supporters. In terms of traditional "ground troops",
however, Dean remained at a disadvantage. Dean
adopted a coffee shop strategy to visit grassroot activists
in all 99 Iowa counties, but he lacked the campaign
infrastructure to get voters to the polls that his
opponents had.
Using a blog!
• 5 minutes to setup at the most.
• More time to keep updating it.
Let’s setup a blog!
• Go to www.wordpress.com
• Click Sign Up Now!
• Type in username, password, and
confirm.
• Email address that wordpress will work
with. School email is fine.
• Check Legal flotsam
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Change
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Change
your blog domain (if you want)
the blog title (if you want)
the language (if you want)
the Privacy (if you want)
– This allows for Google and Yahoo to search
for your site.
Congratulations!
You now have your own blog!
Now we are ready to BLOG!
Login
• Type in your username and password
and click “Log in”
Profile
• After you log in, locate My Profile in the
top right hand corner of the page, and
click it.
• Type any information that you want
here. But you don’t have to.
• You can even upload any picture here.
Let’s write a post.
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On the top toolbar, click on write.
In the title line type, “My first post.”
In the big white box type, “Hello world!”
Click Publish.
Yippee!
• You have just posted your first
comment on the internet.
• Click on “view site” next to your blog
name at the top.
Locate Site Admin
• This will take you back to your control
screen.
Writing a page
• Very similar to writing a post.
• Except your post is put as a tab on the
top of your blog.
• Type in Class name with “assignments”
on it in the title line.
• Type “Under construction” in the typing
box.
• Click publish. Click view site.
Uploading Pictures and Files
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Click site admin.
Scroll down the screen.
Click the browse button.
Find a picture or file in your documents
that you can upload.
• Double click on that pic or file.
• Give it a name in the title.
• Click upload
• You can select:
– Thumbnail
– Full size
– Title
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Click “Send to Editor”
This will send to the typing box above.
Put a title of your post.
Click publish.
Click view site.
Managing your blog
• Back to Site Admin
• Click Manage
• Click on any of the Tabs to edit
something.
• On anything you have posted you can
edit.
Comments
• Click on Comments tab on top
• You can approve, edit or delete any
comments to your blog.
When comments are posted
• Most of the time, when someone posts
a comment to your blog, it will wait at
this holding spot.
• The only way for it to get on your site,
is for you to approve it.
• Every once in a while you will get some
span.
• Delete it.
Blogroll
• These are putting hot links onto your
site.
Presentation
• You can select the template for your
blog.
• 66 Styles