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Blogging for Beginners 2007
WEEK 5 Tasks - Feb 12th to 18th
Going Beyond: Make Your Blog Unique
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| Objectives for Week 5: Make your blog a rich and attractive learning environment by including multimedia content and multiple communication tools. |
Task 1 - Adding voice and other files to entries:
a. Create a sound file at Odeo (http://odeo.com) or Podomatic (www.podomatic.com)...
b. Create a slideshow at Bubbleshare (www.bubbleshare.com), add your voice comments (optional)...
...and include it/them in one of your blog posts.
Tutorials for Task 1:
Task 2 - Personalizing templates
a. Edit your blog sidebar links
b. Add a widget to your template
c. Offer e-mail subscription to your blog (Check FeedBlitz widgets HERE)
Tutorial for Task 2:
Optional Tasks
a. Create and edit a new element in your sidebar
b. Change the size and alignment of some of your widgets
c. Insert your logo in the header (click HERE for a step-by-step guide)
Blogs of the Week
Office Hours
The Blogging Team will be at Yahoo Messenger on the following times to answer your questions about this week's tasks. Please add our IDs.
SUGGESTED READINGS
(Select according to your needs)
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On Gadgets and Widgets by Claudia Ceraso
http://eltnotes.blogspot.com/2007/02/on-gadgets-and-widgets.html
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How can I use the new Blogger Layouts features
How to upgrade your template (Migrating from the Old to the New Blogger)
http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=44474
How to add, arrange and edit elements in your template
http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=43708
How to edit and customize the fonts and colors of your blog without any knowledge of HTML or CSS
http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=43709
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Free essential tools for Blogger
A periodically updated list of tools you might want to have in your blog to add functionality to it
http://www.quickonlinetips.com/archives/2005/04/free-essential-tools-for-blogger/
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Long Words and Urls Can Break Your Blog Template
A help page to avoid a usual reason for blog messiness
http://www.quickonlinetips.com/archives/2006/07/long-words-and-urls-can-break-your-blog-template/
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"How to embed a You Tube player in your blog post"
(contributed by Jenny)
http://michaelatmo.blogspot.com/2006/05/how-to-embed-you-tube-player-in-your.html
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Creating a background-image in whatever banner.
http://www.thurbroeders.nl/tutorials/banners/t_b_1.htm
How to save your current widgets when changing templates in the New Blogger
http://thrbrtemplates.blogspot.com/2007/02/save-widget.html
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Wiki page: Questions and Answers on Templates and Widgets
The questions you asked during the workshop and the answers you got
http://bloggingforbeginners.pbwiki.com/Q-and-A-on-templates-and-widgets
http://www.bloggerforum.com/modules/newbb/index.php
Have fun with the Ten Commandments for Bloggers
http://betabloggerfordummies.blogspot.com
http://betabloggerfordummies.blogspot.com/2006/10/how-to-add-picture-to-beta-blog-header.html
http://testing-blogger-beta.blogspot.com/
http://testing-blogger-beta.blogspot.com/2006/09/adding-graphic-to-your-blog-header.html
http://beautifulbeta.blogspot.com/
http://beta-templatetesting.blogspot.com/
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Adding Links and Pictures to your Blog Template
This worksheet explains how to change the template in your blog at Blogger so that it displays your links and pictures down the sidebar frame when your blog is displayed on the Internet
http://www.homestead.com/prosites-vstevens/files/pi/computing2/blogwork/blog_template.htm
Learn to identify the different template sections and what you can edit in each.
http://www.blogcourse.charityblognetwork.com/?page_id=10
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