CYBERSMART TAIRĀWHITI: BLOG ROLLOUT
#1: The Invitation
#1 Click on ‘Accept Invitation’
#2: Sign In
#2 Sign in using your school G-Suite username and password
#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.
Bookmark Blogger in your Chromebrowser
If this does not work we may need to resend your Blogger invitation - see your teacher.
Your blog is ready….
Click on VIEW BLOG
Bookmark your Blog
Insert your first post
Insert your Profile as your first post
Create a blog post (video)
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
HTML ( to embed video, Google Slides)
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HTML
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Preview
Preview a post before it is published
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.
How to schedule a blog post
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
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
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
Upload video file to Google Drive
Embed a video from your Google Drive in a blog post
Double click to view screencast
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 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 |
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.
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>