Instructions on how to set up a Blogger blog, what settings to change and how to post

1. How to set up a Blogger blog and
write posts in it?
Irmeli Pietilä 2013
Table of contents
Setting
up
your
Blogger
blog.......................................................................................... 1
Editing
blog
Layout
and
Settings.................................................................................... 2
Posting
an
entry ............................................................................................................ 4

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Setting up your Blogger blog
Sign to your gmail account, and click More>Blogger in the ribbon menu on top of the
window. Click New Blog.
They next suggest Start blogging, but you should first check the Layout and some
Settings! For that, Click the icon that looks like sheets of paper (see below)
After that, Click settings on the bottom left margin.

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Editing blog Layout and Settings
Before you get started, you may want to watch Screenr videos showing how editing is
done. Blogger looks have changed a little since I made the videos, but the basic ideas are
still valid.
http://www.screenr.com/U2d8 Blog Layout. Gadgets Labels, Followers & Bloglist.
http://www.screenr.com/A2d8 Preview. Changing the order of the Gadgets.
http://www.screenr.com/32d8 Settings: Basic, Posts and Comments, Mobile and Email
http://www.screenr.com/NUd8 Settings: Language and Formatting, Other
Labels makes it possible to filter posts according to label. For instance, if the students
write a learning journal in the blog, you can ask them to label their entries with labels like
”plan”, ”reflection”, or ”3.1”, ”3.2” (assignment 3.1, 3.2) etc. This way it is easy to find just
the relevant posts, when it is time to assess the student’s work.
Followers gadget makes it easy to subscribe to students’ blogs, and add them to bloglist in
the course blog.
Bloglist is a convinient way to keep track of new updates. That is why I always add a
bloglist of student’s blogs to the course blog, and encourage students to follow updates
there, of even better, add a bloglist of their team mate’s blogs to their own blog.

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Basic Settings
Posts and comments

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Mobile and email
Language and formatting
Congratulations, you have now completed the setup and are ready to post your first entry!
Posting an entry
You might again want to watch some videos, which explain the basics of posting a blog
entry.
http://www.screenr.com/mUd8 Basic editing
http://www.screenr.com/EUd8 Adding links and images
http://www.screenr.com/JUd8 Updating a saved post
http://www.screenr.com/jUd8 Embedding YouTube video
http://www.screenr.com/kSd8 Embedding in HTMLview

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