Blogs

20 steps to blogging heaven

Aims

to introduce blogging

introduce typepad blogging platform

start a blog

customise your blog

away you go

Literacy outcomes for A Curriculum for Excellence:

Definition of “texts” novels, short stories, plays, poems, reference texts, the spoken word, charts, maps, graphs and timetables, advertisements, promotional leaflets, comics, newspapers and magazines, CVs, letters and e-mails, films, games and TV

programmes, labels, signs and posters, recipes, manuals and instructions, reports and reviews,

text messages, blogs and social networking sites, web pages, catalogues and directories

Blogs

The Platform

www.typepad.co.uk

Step One

go to www.typepad.co.uk and click sign in

Step Two

enter the member name and password.

Can you guess the password?

Step Three

go to the account’s weblogs tab

Step Four

Create your blog

Step Five

give your new blog a name

Step Six

managing your blog

Step Seven

design your blog

Step Eight

configure your blog

Step Nine

think about the different categories your blog posts may come under

Step Ten

don’t worry, we are getting ever closer to your first post!!!

making your blog visible to the world

Step Eleven

setting your blog’s feedback options

Step Twelve

this is it...your first post

Step Thirteen

just like writing an email

Step Fourteen

time to enter the blogosphere

Step Fifteen

adding links to your blog

Step Sixteen

know any useful websites...add a link to your blog

Step Seventeen

Choose which blog you want to publish on

Step Eighteen

Back to design

Step Nineteen

Jazz up your posts

Step 20

Where do you want to go now

Some useful links

http://www.commoncraft.com/blogs - a short film about blogs

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog - definition of a blog

http://www.scotedublogs.org.uk/blogs - index of blogs created by teachers and students in Scotland, examples of blogs across the curriculum

http://edu.blogs.com/edublogs/ - Ewan MacIntosh, bit of a guru in the blogosphere and the chap who got me going

http://thegordonschools.typepad.co.uk/asu/ - sometimes reflective sometimes ranting, but all mine