Blogging+101

Welcome to the blogoshpere! What do you know about blogs/blogging?

Blogging fears/Blogging hazards

Can blogs enhance professional practice?

Reading blogs: Spend some time looking at [|this blogging resource]. This is by far, the best resource available with regard to educational blogging.

Excellent site that categorizes educational blogs by discipline!

Writing blogs-why?

Students and blogs-benefits? -expanded audience & accountability -multiple perspectives

Al Turton - [] AHS Online Publishing [|AHS AP English Literature and Composition] AHS AP Literature Student Blogs

Setting Up a Blog


 * Specifics
 * Hide comments
 * Editing posts
 * Issues as they arise

The How-To's of blogging: Setting up a student account Including a picture in your blog: Save the picture to your H drive and upload it when you are editing you post by clicking on the 'add image' icon. Remember that in order to copy and paste your posts from blog to blog, you have to click 'Edit Html' in order to paste content successfully.
 * 1) Go to blogger.com
 * 2) Click 'get started'
 * 3) Fill in the required fields - e-mail, password, etc.
 * 4) Example student display name: AMSTylerA
 * 5) Once students are logged in, they should find the link to your blog and start commenting!