Week 2 - Setting up your blog

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#3 Grab yourself a blog in 3 steps

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Now that you’ve done some exploring around this website and understand how this program will work, it’s time to setup your very own personal blog.

Your blog is where you will be recording your thoughts, discoveries and exercises for the Learning 2.0 program.

To set up your blog, use Blogger*, a popular free online blog
hosting service that is extremely easy to use.

Creating a blog using Blogger takes just three steps:

1. Create an account (view screenshot)



2. Name your blog (view screenshot)



3. Select your template. (view screenshot)

Once you’ve created your blog here are two important things to know:

• To add posts:
  The maintenance interface that you will use to add posts, edit or change the set-up of your blog is accessed online at http://www.blogger.com/
  Make sure you write down your login and password.
  

• To view your blog:
  Your blog address is http://(xxxx).blogspot.com, (xxxx)=the unique identifier you entered in Step 2.
  Be sure to also write down your blog address.

A couple of useful Tips!

• You can use any email address to set up a Blog in Blogger.
  It is not necessary to set up a Gmail account to create a Blog.
  (you can use your staff email)
  



• Write down the details from your 'Create Account' or print out this page.

This may help you to remember your login and password.

#4 Register your Blog

• Now it's time to register your blog
  When registering your Blog:
  Cut and paste the url (address) into the
  Learning 2.0 Program Registration Form.
  



• As you address each exercise please make this the title of your post. eg. #5 Flickr
  

• For more information -there is an excellent tutorial about creating a blog

As you progress through the PLCMC Learning 2.0 Program it will be evident that certain things do not apply to our program.
We may change some of the exercises to more relevant ones for you.
This will appear on your library's Learning blog.

Once you have registered your Blog it will be listed on your library's
Learning 2.0 Participants Blog.
The participants blog is a good place to gain inspiration and support each other via the comments section in the individual blogs.

Sites of general interest on blogging are Livejournal and Immortalspace (alternatives to Blogger) and Blogger's Help page, with handy tips for new members.

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