Blogs+&+Wikis

Blogging and Wiki sites:
Edublogs Blogger Weebly Wordpress Wikispaces- You're here!

Beginners: compose and edit posts
1. Start a new post and give it a title (such as “welcome to my blog”). 2. Write a sentences welcoming readers to your blog. 3. Use bold, italics, and colored text at various points in your sentences. 4. Do a spellcheck. 5. Publish your post and view your blog

Start a new post with the title “recommended resources.”
6. Create a numbered list of links to two external web sites. 7. Publish your post and view your blog 8. Now edit the first post you made and add a picture to it, either uploaded from your computer or from the web. 9. Edit the second post you made and a link to the blog of a teacher next to you. 10. Leave a comment on one of the posts the teacher made congratulating them on their blog!

=== More advanced add multimedia and interactivity to your blog === <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 11.55pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">1. Create a new post. Embed a youtube or teachertube video. <span style="display: block; line-height: 11pt; margin: 0in 8.75pt 0pt 1in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">Hint: if video is too big use “edit html” to reduce width & height. <span style="display: block; line-height: 11pt; margin: 0in 8.75pt 0pt 1in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">2. Click design tab and add the following gadgets to one of the side bars: <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">a. Text: Add a welcome message to your blog or some other bit of text <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">b. Link list: title it “My Favorite Blogs” and add links to all your new favorite blogs. <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">c. Poll: Create a poll asking students how long homework took them last night <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">d. Blog Archive: adds links to older posts

<span style="display: block; line-height: 11pt; margin: 0in 22.6pt 185pt 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">Help your groupmates learn “more advanced” features. Make sure that everyone is up to speed. <span style="display: block; line-height: 11pt; margin: 0in 22.6pt 185pt 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">﻿<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">