Week #4- Blogging

AIM

My aim for this week is to learn how to create a blog and to be creative while doing so.

The task for this class was:

-To create a blog

-Create a welcome page for your blog and

-Also to create pages for your blog so you can enter your information.

1.         Log onto Blogger.com

2.        Then I signed into my gmail account.

3.        I  inserted the tittle of my blog

4.        Typed in the URL thats associated with my blog.  

5.        I also added a template to my blog 

6.        Then I created my blog.

7. The name of my blog is “Technological Skills”

1.        Posts was selected from the left hand side menu of the webpage

2.       A new post was selected of which I created a title page

3.       I then had to create my post as my default page which is my welcome screen to my visitors. 

4.       I then customized my post 

5.       I changed my settings to allow my contributors/visitors to add a comment on my default page. 

Inviting someone to your blog

1.        I signed into my blog and went to settings 

2.        I scrolled down to the bottom of the page to permissions

3.       Then select 'add author'

4.       Afterwards I selected add contact, however if you do not have that option you can add your contact manually.

5. I then sent an invitation after adding contact and waited for the individual to 'accept invitation'.

 commenting on someone elses blog

1.    Visit the individual's blog and landed onto the default homepage,

2.     Sroll to the bottom of the default page or any pages I would like to comment on.

3.Add a comment was selected 

4.The comment I made was published so it becomes visible on the page.

creating a link to add to my page

1.           Click on the tab ‘Link’ for the tool bar on the edit page

2.          There was a pop up, where I entered the name I chose for the link.

3.       I then entered the URL

4.        I selected the box, open in new tab. Do note that this is optional.

CHALLENGES With this task

 I did experience some challenges this week with creating my blog and adding the pages. Also adding my first week reflection from my post to my blog page

Overcoming my challenges

 I did so by researching Blogs and watching videos on Youtube  on how to blog. However from doing this research I was able to learn  and understand how to create and modify my pages.

Blogging will be good for the classroom because it will give  students the opportunity to display their work and show off their artistic skills  which will serve as a motivator for the subject area.