BLOG CLASS SESSION 1 - PRELIMINARY SET UP

Hello Family!

I will teach my blog class here post by post so that you can all follow along and learn how to do this.

Each of you who want to take this class will decide to make a blog of your own. It's up to you what you do with it after the class. You can delete it, not delete it and ignore it, or you can use it.

The purpose of the class, however, is to learn how to use blogger and ultimately do a community blog together, as Stella has proposed.

Please follow along and I will teach you step by step how to use blogger.


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The first thing you need is an existing email address. If you're looking over someone's shoulder now and you want to do this but don't have an address... make one.

Next go to blogger.com



Follow the instructions "Create a blog in 3 easy steps"

Throughout this process, always look for a button or arrow in ORANGE.

As we go through this process, I will refer to my http://dreamsofmay.blogspot.com/ as an example of the elements you will encounter.

Click "Create Your Blog Now" (the ORANGE arrow)

STEP ONE - CREATE AN ACCOUNT:

Enter:

Email address
Password
Retype password
Display name (see http://dreamsofmay.blogspot.com/ My display name is "A Collection of Writings")
Now type in the wobbly word that you see
Check that you accept the terms of service
Click ORANGE arrow "Continue"


STEP TWO - NAME YOUR BLOG:


Blog Title
Blog Address (This may take several tries, according to what is available.)

TIP: Remember that if you are going to share your address with others, it needs to be memorable, spell-able, not a bunch of weird characters, underscores and stuff like that. If you are just doing this as a test, feel free to name it whatever you wish. Those other things won't matter if you don't intend to share it. Like you can make the address http://my_super__test-blog.blogspot.com/ It would be hard to tell someone, "Hey, go to my underscore super underscore underscore test hyphen blog dot blogspot dot com"

Click ORANGE arrow "Continue"


STEP THREE - CHOOSE A TEMPLATE

Select the template you want.

To get a sneak peek, click "preview template". This can be changed at any time.
Click the ORANGE arrow at the bottom of the page. (Use the scroll bar at the far right to scroll down and find it.)