Introductions to Blogging

A classroom blog can be an important part of your classroom practise and can be used in lots of different ways. Generally a blog is good if your are showing unique pieces of information over a period of time. The material can be sorted using tags, which highlight the key ideas in each post.

Blogs can be a weekly class summary completed by students, an immersion language site, a record of what is happening in class to communicate with parents, or a way to differentiate and extend more able students. 

Video Tutorials - Blogging at UWCSEA

Basic Text Instructions:

1. Visit the website http://blogger.com
2. Sign in with your Google Apps username and password eg. abc@gapps.uwcsea.edu.sg
3. Create your private blogger profile, which describes who you are, perhaps Mr Smith.
4. Then click to create a new blog
5. Choose the name of your blog and you can choose the a unique URL address.
6. Then choose the theme. This can be changed later.
7. Once this is complete you can write your first post, by clicking on the pencil button Think about adding pictures, videos and add a label to categorise your post.
8. Then go click on the B icon at top and click on settings, then permissions to invite people to your blog. Blogs can be very private, very public or shared with a few readers. 
9. Remember to bookmark www.blogger.com to quickly access your dashboard.