Getting Started with Edublogs
Go to Edublogs to signup
Quick Tutorial videos
http://edublogs.org/videos
Great website for getting started http://www.willard.k12.mo.us/co/tech/blog.htm
Trainining and Screencasts on Edublogs
Screencasts for Staff Publishing a Blog using Edublogs
- Signing up for an Edublogs Account
- Features of a Blog (Posts, Pages, Widgets, Comments, Meta, Categories, Archive, Logging in)
- Changing Your Password
- Adding Users to a Blog: having multiple authors for one blog, an explanation of the roles (priviledges) you can assign for each user.
- Setting Some Options for Your Blog (General, Reading, Discussion, AMD, Plugin-Advanced Editor)
- Writing a Post (Preview, Edit, Delete a Post, Password Protect, TimeDate Stamp)
- Using Picnik to Optimize Your Images for Posting on a Webpage
- Inserting an Image in a Post or Page
- Inserting a File/Document in a Post or Page
- Inserting a Hyperlink in a Post or Page
- Writing a Page: (creating, using special options for pages, and editing a page)
- Editing Your Blogroll
- Moderating Comments
- Selecting Your Presentation and Choosing Your Widgets
- Creating Another Blog
- Creating a Teacher Monitored LearnerBlog for Each Student 3/19/08: Edublogs has a new feature that allows you to more easily create teacher monitored student blogs. For directions, view Mr. Farmer's screencast.
- Creating One Class Blog with All Your Students as Users
- Embed a SlideShare Show in a Post or Page
- Embed Bubbleshare Show in a Post or Page
- Embed a Video in a Post or Page (This is for videos already uploaded to Google Videos, YouTube, TeacherTube, etc.)
- Embed a mp3 File in a Post or Page (This is for mp3 files uploaded to a storage site such as Podomatic, archives.org,
- Embed a RockYou Presentation in a Post or Page
- Creating a Custom Widget with html Code (example Creative Commons License)
- Embed an Animoto Video in a Post