Student Blog Information and Directions

First: (www.edublogs.org) Log in with your password and then click your “Dashboard.”

You many only change or add the things I tell you! You may NOT change ANYthing else!


Before You Can Write, You MUST Do the Following 4 Things:

  1. Click on SETTINGS (it is on the upper right hand side)

    1. click in the box for TAGLINE

    2. hit the backspace to delete the message that says “Another excellent edublogs.org weblog”

    3. type in the words that you want to be like the sub-title of your blog

      1. examples: “Smarty Pants Report”

      2. examples: “Words From the Monkey Girl”

      3. you can leave it blank if you want

    4. click the SAVE CHANGES button at the very bottom of the page (scroll down)


  1. Click on DISCUSSION (at the top center of the page still under settings)

    1. find the BEFORE A COMMENT APPEARS section

      1. click the check OFF of “comment author must fill out name and email”

      2. click the check OFF of “comment author must have a previous approved comment”

      3. click on the empty box to put a check ON “an administrator must always approve the comment”

      4. click the SAVE CHANGES button at the very bottom of the page


  1. Click on DESIGN (on the upper left hand side)

    1. scroll down looking at all the designs

    2. click on the design you love

**Anytime you want to see your what your blog looks like, just click VISIT SITE. When you are done, just hit the back button at the very top of your screen to go back.**


  1. Stay in the DESIGN section and Click on WIDGETS (on the top left side)

    1. if a red message comes up then you can skip this or go back and choose a different design

    2. the left side is a list of all the widgets you COULD have and the right side is a list of all the widgets you DO have on your site

      1. click on ADD next to each of these widgets

        1. email subscription

        2. blog avatar

        3. recent comments

        4. recent posts

    3. you will see each blue box pop up on the right when you add it

    4. click SAVE CHANGES

Main Things to Do On Your Blog

WRITING A POST/ENTRY

  1. Click on WRITE

  2. Write a Title for your entry in the skinny title box

  3. Write you story, note, memory, ideas…whatever you want in the post section. You can play around with the buttons to see what they all do.

  4. I will teach you later how to add pictures. (If your mom and dad want to help you put some up that is ok, but remember NO NAMES AT ALL NEXT TO PICTURES!!!)

  5. If you don’t finish your post, you can hit SAVE and it will save it and not put it on your blog yet. (SAVE- keeps it like a draft. PUBLISH- means it is finished and goes on the website.) Later if you want to finish it you can find the draft in the MANAGE section (directions are next).

  6. If you are all done and want it on the web, hit PUBLISH!


MANAGING ALL YOUR POSTS

  1. Click on MANAGE (top of the page)

** This is where a list of all your posts/entries are kept. You can finish them (if you saved it), change them, or delete them. **

    1. Do you have a post you didn’t write called “Hello World?” If so, you want to delete it.

    2. This is how you DELETE A POST:

      1. click in the little box next to the date of the post

      2. a little check should appear

      3. then click the delete button at the top of the page (any posts with a check in the box will be deleted)

      4. when the screen comes up again that post should be gone from the list

2. If you want to finish a post, just click on the post title and you can edit the post.


COMMENTS

If you followed my directions, then all your comments wait for you to approve them before they can be seen on your site. This is how you approve or unapproved comments that people leave you:


  1. Click on COMMENTS

  2. you will see a list of all the comments you have gotten (old and new)

  3. next to each comment on the RIGHT you can see whether you have already approved the comment or not

  4. If you haven’t approved your comments, you click in the box next to the comment you want to approve. Then click APPROVE.

  5. If you want to delete a comment, you also click in the box next to the comment and then click DELETE! (Remember, if you delete you will lose it forever!)