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hello class
this is Renee Leech for education 631
foundations of educational technology and online
this particular assignment is the distance learning lesson
in this lesson I'll be teaching
how to create an online blog specifically
through the website of edublogs
go to this website at WWW
dot edublogs dot org
I picked this website because
it's specifically for educational purposes. Who can use this blog?
teachers educators students
educational institutions and school districts
this is a list of a few organizations
and individuals who typically use
edublogs
here are my references to get them out of the way
and just for your reference if you would like to go back
for additional information. So now
I am actually going to close this PowerPoint down
and I'm going to get the process started.
So in order to make
an edublog you're gonna go to
any Internet browser that you have on your computer
and I am using Google Chrome
So I'm going to write in at the top
are typing in at the top www
dot EDUblogs
dot org and then I'm going to press enter.
Once the page has loaded you should see the screen before you
and as you can see this particular website
has been around since 2005 and it's the world's most popular education blogging service
service
and it also has been serving
over two million blogs since then
So you can just scroll down to get a better feel for the services that are offered
through this website if it interests you. They have some information about
ways to use
edublogs. I believe they have a mobile app and you can
download the app also one your iPod
your iPad, iPhone, I believe your Kindle as well
you can post videos, podcasts
documents and it's also free
which is a plus, you won't see any advertisements or
inappropriate content and that's why its key for this to be educational
website because it's specific to
the topic a education and it's great for
networking you can also connect
to your educational institution if they have an account
with edublogs and even whole districts
use edublogs for online learning and also just different
ways for teachers to communicate with students
and
various technology skills like that. So to go ahead and
start making our blog
you're going to go to the login down Dropbox
click that can. And you
click login. Now you are doing this so you can get to the
register option which is down
at the bottom and it's highlighted in blue where my cursor is
I'm go ahead and click to that and as that page is loading
okay it loaded already I'm gonna just create
a fictitious username
called jellybeans, cause jelly beans are awesome
Aww and you know what?
that username is already taken so
I'm just going to try and diversify my username. Sometimes that happens
I'm just trying to create another name that might not have already been taken
alright we'll see that. That's just another fictitious
username that I just came up with and
you do not have to put an email
address on there if you do not wish to
I am
not going to you, so now it's time to put
your password in, you can just make that up. I'm just going to put anything
that I can remember
Okay, there we go with that and then it goes to the "Your blog" section
and it displays your username
with the added website
so this is how you can get to your blog
you copy and paste this entire thing and into
your web browser that your blog will come up
Here you can create a blog title
I'm going to create another fictitious class
here and I'm
going to call it "Class of the Awesome"
language
English or whatever your preferred language is
and blog type, student, because I'm a student
if you're not a student you would put the appropriate answer
and this is just a verification code here
they also have an option where my cursor is
for you to you click and to hear
if you have a visual..if you're
if you're an individual who's living with some type a visual impairment you have
the option to actually hear
for letters better, that are presently on the screen
but I can see well so I'm gonna go ahead and add
what is on the screen
now I've already read the Terms of Service
so you can go ahead and do that, at your own discretion
and if you agree with the terms of service to then
you're gonna go ahead and say I agree click on there and then
you have a start blogging option so go ahead and click that
and if everything worked successfully for you, you should see this screen that came
up and it says congratulations!!
that I'm good to go and I'm ready to start so now
I have all my information. If you would like
you can copy all this information or do a screen capture
so that all the information is there for you whenever you need it and it also has my
password there which also could help you so then you
remember what you have. Okay I am gonna go ahead and click here
to "Log into your new blog", as that is loading
I have the page here
I have an option to create different things
on my blog like here, it says customize your, the
look of your blog, change your theme
things like that, you can write a new blog post:
you can do all sorts of things here now and
you also, to the left of your screen
have a lot of material that will
help you navigate and
organize your blog, so that you have
all your information, easily accessible
and so you also have here
a welcoming post that is on your
blog, let's actually
go to "view your blog" and you can see
what you have so far, this is just a default
image or theme that you have here
you can change it if you'd like and here's the welcome
comment from edublogs to you
so congratulations you have successfully
created a blog through
the website edublogs, thank you