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Blogging for Beginners 2007

 

WEEK 5 Tasks - Feb 12th to 18th

Going Beyond: Make Your Blog Unique

 

 

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 (www.odeo.com) or Podomatic (www.podomatic.com)...

b. Create a slideshow at Bubbleshare, add your voice comments (optional)...

 (Click here for a Bubbleshare tutorial)

...and include it/them in one of your blog posts.

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

Optional Tasks

a. Create and edit a new title in your sidebar

b. Change the size and alignment of some of your widgets

c. Insert your logo in the header

 

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.

 

  • Monday 12th - 14 GMT - Carla Arena (ID: carlaarena)

                              23 GMT - Claudia Bellusci (ID: mcbellusci)

 

  • Tuesday 13th - 13 GMT - Claudia Bellusci (ID: mcbellusci)

 

  • Wednesday 14th14 GMT - Carla Arena (ID: carlaarena)

 

  • Thursday 15th22 GMT - Erika Cruvinel (ID: erikacruvinel)

 

  • Friday 16th - 23 GMT - Claudia Bellusci (ID: mcbellusci)

SUGGESTED READINGS

(Select according to your needs)

 

  •  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 

 

  • Layout Guide

How to add, arrange and edit elements in your template

http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=43708

 

  • Fonts and Colours

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

 

  • 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

 

  • 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/

 

  • 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/

 

  • Editing your blog

Learn to identify the different template sections and what you can edit in each.

http://www.blogcourse.charityblognetwork.com/?page_id=10

 

  • "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

 

  • 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

 

  • Wiki page: Some Tips and Links to Personalize your Blog Template

http://bloggingforbeginners.pbwiki.com/Some-Tips-and-Links-to-Personalize-your-Blog-Template

 

 

 

"Help Desk": optional chat to answer queries. Venue and time to be confirmed.

 

 

 

 

Check your work for Week 5

 

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