It’s time to setup your very own personal blog to begin recording your thoughts, discoveries and exercises in.
You may want to look at some of these local blogs My Life with Lola, Cake Magic, Make Art Everyday as well as others like Archives Hub Blog, ephemera, or Guided by History to get some ideas for your own!
Ready to Begin?
Grab yourself a blog in 3 steps
For this program, I recommend that you use Blogger*, a popular free online blog hosting service that is extremely easy to use. Creating a blog using Blogger takes just three steps:
- Create an account (view screenshot)
- Name your blog (view screenshot)
- Select your template. (view screenshot)
Still need help? Watch this quick tutorial about setting up your blog using Blogger.
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 step-up your blog is accessed online at http://www.blogger.com/ Be sure to 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. If you run into problems or would like more information about blogs and using Blogger here are some discovery resources you can use:
- Freevlog’s Quicktime Tutorial: Setup a Free Blogger Blog Note: Ignore the opening comments about downloading Firefox if your PC doesn’t have it. This will work in Explorer just fine.
- Blogger's Quick Tutorial
OK -- Now, it’s your turn...
Discovery Exercise:Setup a blog for yourself through Blogger.
Add a test post or two.
Share the results of this exercise here!
NOTE: Use one of your test posts to create an entry about the habits among the 7 and 1/2 lifelong learning habits that is easiest and hardest for you & why. Try to aim for 150 to 200 words or four to five long sentences.
Have fun!!!!
IMPORTANT NOTE: How you choose to identify yourself on your blog is your choice. You can blog under a screen name, anonymously, or as yourself. You may want to read this article - How to Blog Safely - which provides some helpful tips about how you can control the amount of information you reveal about yourself on your blog.
* Use of Blogger is only a recommendation. If there is another blog hosting site that you are more comfortable with, please feel free to use it.
3 comments:
To tell you the truth there are so many other things that I desire to learn that this is just not my first choice. So There
Not sure I understand why blogging is such a big deal, I have better things to do.
Ditto anonymous, from another anonymous!! I don't get it. I did it, but I still don't get it.
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