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CYBERSMART TAIRĀWHITI: BLOG ROLLOUT

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#1: The Invitation

#1 Click on ‘Accept Invitation’

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#2: Sign In

#2 Sign in using your school G-Suite username and password

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#3: Confirm your profile

#4 Use your FIRST NAME only as your display name

Making smart decisions about what personal information I will share and what personal information I will keep private.

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Bookmark Blogger in your Chromebrowser

If this does not work we may need to resend your Blogger invitation - see your teacher.

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Your blog is ready….

Click on VIEW BLOG

Bookmark your Blog

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Insert your first post

  • Click on NEW POST - it is next to your email
  • This takes you to the editing window…
  • TITLE: Profile
  • Create a post introducing yourself as a learner.
  • LABELS: 2020, profile

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Insert your Profile as your first post

  • Click on NEW POST - it is next to your email
  • This takes you to the editing window…
  • TITLE: Profile
  • Copy and paste your profile from your class Google Doc
  • Insert an image of yourself. Be Cybersmart when you choose your image - advertise yourself positively online. Your teacher may already have a portrait for you to use.

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Create a blog post (video)

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Blogger’s post editor has three options for posting:

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Components of a blog post (click to enlarge)

Tip: Use Shift Ctrl V when you paste content from your Google Drive

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HTML ( to embed video, Google Slides)

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HTML

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Preview

Preview a post before it is published

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How to label your blog posts

Labels will help you and your audience find specific blog posts

Labels are one or two keywords to describe your learning

e.g. smart footprint, cybersmart

How to label your blog posts

This is your blog so your name is automatically added to the post and does not need to be a label.

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How to schedule a blog post

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Upload an image to a blog post

At the top of the page, touch the Photo icon photo icon.

Choose where you'd like to upload the image from.

Select one or more images to upload.

Click Add selected. Once your image is in your post, click the image to change the photo's size, caption, and location on the page.

Tip: Planning to insert multiple images in your post?

Create a collage in Google Draw

or

create a slideshow in Google Slides

How to embed Google Slides

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Create a Google Presentation

Insert images into slides or use DriveSlides extension

Embed Slides in Googlesite.

Google Presentation

DriveSlides allows you to create a Google Slides presentation out of images in a Google Drive folder. Simply open a folder in Google Drive that contains JPG, PNG or GIF images. Press the DriveSlides Chrome extension icon to open the Google Slides presentation with your images automatically added. The Slides are created in your Google Drive, within the same folder.

Embed Slides in Blog

Double click to view screencast

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Publish to the web and embed in your blog post similar to Google presentation.

Embed or insert a Google Drawing

Choose Embed

Image size: Small

Publish

Copy Embed code

Paste into HTML on your blog post

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Upload video file to Google Drive

  1. Select 3 vertical dots - share the video anyone with the link can view.
  2. Select - open in new window
  3. Select 3 vertical dots - embed item - copy the embed code
  4. Paste code into your blog as html

Embed a video from your Google Drive in a blog post

Double click to view screencast

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WALT improve our choice of words when writing comments

Replace lazy words with POWER words

Greetings: sup, yo, hey

Have you spelt the bloggers name correctly and used a capital letter?

Be positive good, cool

Find a POWER word

Compliment like, love

Find a POWER word

Be specific stuff, things, it, work

Use a noun: The name of a person, place or object.

Use a descriptive noun

A noun that is more specific

e.g. picture - drawing, cartoon, photograph, collage, painting, mural, poster

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When you tick Notify me you will recieve an email notification if anyone leaves another comment or reply on this blog post.

This notification is useful if you have asked a question and the blogger replies. You will receive an email similar to the examples below.

The email includes a link to the post so you can quickly access the post and leave another reply.

You can also stop these notifications by clicking unsubscribe.

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Include a hyperlink in your blog comment to another post that might be helpful.

Copy the html below and paste into your comment.

Replace Insert link with the URL of the blog post

Replace Insert text with the text you want to display in your comment

<a href="Insert link">Insert text</a>