Edublogs Tutorials

If you would like to add some extra functions to a post or to your sidebar, perhaps you’d like to take a look at LabPixies

There’s lots to choose from and include games, entertainment and tools - here’s a couple to start with

I just checked the stats for Edublogs Tutorials and it seems that 10,000 of you have visited the site since its inception in March 2007 and 5,000 of those since March this year!

I’m always fascinated by the growth of internet information and thank all of you for taking a look and leaving your comments. A number of others have set up sites to help with setting up Edublogs blogs and I’m sure anyone who is new will find the answers very quickly.

I hope you have found the tips and hints useful in either getting started or developing new functions for your sites

Here’s to lots of new bloggers

Mike

I thought it was about time I had a go with this, so here’s a great flower display I took in a park in Normandy, France in September 2007

BTW, CleVR is really VERY simple to use and is helped if your camera has the panorama shot setting as mine does. If not, just remember to keep the photos at the same level and overlap at least 1/4

Scribd is a great free application that allows you to add a document directly into your post

It is straight forward to do

1. sign up for a free Scribd account
2. upload a document
3. find the ‘embed’ box
4. copy the code
5. open up a post in edit mode
6. add any text that you wish - descriptions etc
7. click the code tab at the top
8. place your cursor where you want your document to show up
9. click paste
10. click publish
11. enjoy
    

Gail Desler has recently produced a new and up-to-date guide in pdf format for those who want to print out a user guide

It’s detailed and has all that you will need to get up and running with Edublogging - thanks Gail

The index looks like this, so anything here you want to find out about - check it out

Getting Started ……………………………………………………………………3
Viewing Your Blog………………………………………………………………..5
Changing Your Password……………………………………………………..6
Changing Other Information in the Users Panel ………………….6
Creating a Post or Page ……………………………………………………….7
Editing a Post ………………………………………………………………………7
Creating Pages……………………………………………………………………..8
Adding Hyperlinks to a Post (or Page) …………………………………9
Adding Anchor Links……………………………………………………………9
Creating Categories………………………………………………………………10
Assigning Categories ……………………………………………………………10
Adding Tags to a Post …………………………………………………………..11
Adding Links to Your Blog Roll……………………………………………..12
Adding Your Blog Roll to the Sidebar…………………………………….12
Changing the Presentation (Theme)………………………………………12
Adding Images or Documents to Your Blog …………………………..14
Formatting Images ……………………………………………………………….15
Changing Your Blog’s Tagline ………………………………………………..15
Monitoring Your Blog …………………………………………………………….16
Moderating Comments…………………………………………………………..17
Approving Comments …………………………………………………………..17
Editing Comments………………………………………………………………….17
Adding Edublog Community Users ………………………………………..18
Limiting Comments to Edublog Community Members ………….19
Ready for Advanced Edublogs Tutorials? ……………………………..19

Well done again James - multibloggability is here!.

This is a new function which allows you as an Edublogs user to create new blogs for others to use.

Key point is that you can add yourself as an administrator to assist them with some of the fiddly setting up and theme selection. All this can be managed from your own dashboard.

You can also choose to have them set up as author or contributor, so their posts are moderated first, before going live.

These are available free of charge in batches of 15, but you can have more if you require - if you need more, just fill in the first 15 on the blog form, process it and repeat

Dead easy

Edublogs Tutorials was 1 year old at the end of February

Many thanks to all of the 10,000 of you who have dropped in and taken a look

Well done all those of you who have used this and other sites to get your Edublogs up and running, as well as those who have helped me with tech tips and checking my sometimes faulty or ambiguously written advice

Keep on blogging

Just in case you hadn’t noticed these in the support area - Edublogs has its own video tutorials to help you get started

BTW - I added the Podcast 3b and 3c to the post Podcast #3

and also the link to Wes Fryer’s blog, where the original podcast was located

Many thanks to Michigan State University for these video tutorials - they are great and mean I don’t have to do them - you can always find them in the page tabs at the top of this post under Edublogs V-Tutorials

Video 1: Creating an blog account

Video 2: Looking at the dashboard

Video 3: How to write a post and a page

Video 4: How to moderate comments

Video 5: Changing the theme

Alice Mercer has started a great blog on how to start up with Edublogs

Do take a look as she has explained things very simply and you might want to use this site to get additional information on moving ahead

I would highly recommend taking a look

I came across this user guide in pdf format and thought that some of you would prefer to have all the information in one place.

I have recently found another version that has a simpler getting started section 

I also found an Edublogs manual that looks great

It’s a fairly straightforward set of instructions, but I am one of those who is very poor with user manuals - if you like them , then this could be for you

Did you know that edublogs has a very useful function called autosave.

This means if your machine stops working for any reason or your Internet connection is lost whilst writing a post, edublogs very kindly keeps all your information safe as a draft copy.

When you go into the post editing section, you should see a link for your draft post just above the edit box. Simply click on this and continue writing or saving your post.

As you can see in my right hand sidebar, I have split my blogroll into categories. This is the same method as putting your posts in categories.

1. firstly go into the edit mode of your site
2. in the menu, select blogroll
3. and then click on add link
4. copy and paste the Web address (URL) of the website into the box
5. add a title and description if you wish
6. on the right-hand side there is a column titled categories
7. in the box underneath this title, type in a new category if needed
8. this will automatically be selected with a tick
9. click of the add link button and a new category will be made in your sidebar for your blogroll

You will need to set up an account.

1. To do this, you will need to go to http://edublogs.org/
2. You will need to give your blog a name and you will need an e mail address and a password.
3. When you have registered, you will get an email.
4. Simply click on the link shown and than your blog is live.
5. Remember to write down the address of the blog and your password.
6. Then you can start posting

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I also found some excellent video tutorials

Video 1: Creating an blog account
Video 2: Looking at the dashboard

Video 3: How to write a post and a page

Video 4: How to moderate comments

Video 5: Changing the theme

If this is your first look at a blog, let me explain.

A blog is simply a series of articles (posts) written by you and can be seen on the internet. If you can send an email, you can write a blog post