Some help files for blogger

Here's a basic intro that Michael made - for low level students really (link: pdf stored in google drive).

GCF LearnFree don't have an intro to blogger, but they do have a great section talking about blogs in general, and an intro to Tumblr instead. Tumblr is much more visual than blogger, which can be text-heavy.

Google themselves have a fairly decent help section.

Grovo has a few videos showing the basics, including this overview. But they're a commercial mob, and they'll want you to pay for more.



What good resources have you found so far?

Skills you may need (blogging)

What are the the basics of blogging?

• make new blog, with title & web address (URL)
• hopefully at a time when google is not policing your IP address
• make new post 
• add & format text
• add images
• make links
• save draft / publish
• get people interested in reading your blog post

knowledge you may need

Ideas for engaging learners with online activities. 

Ideas for adapting your already brilliant teaching and learning knowledge into online spaces. 

On writing for the web 

• keep it as visual as possible 
• make your text very "scannable" 
• eg use bullets 
• (maybe a bit less than i do in this post)

• package the info into manageable chunks. 

intermediate

• embed video & other web app things, eg forms & surveys
• tinker with your layout
• add "gadgets", eg rss feed & other blogs
• get people to comment on your blog post

Photo by Gary Hayes, Descending Clouds - cc-by-nc-nd (creative commons at flickr).

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Presentation on drive & blogger

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