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BLOGGING 1Basic concepts
Paul McNultyStevenson College
03/06/2010
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What is a blog?
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What is a blog?
a content publishing system where entries are added over time
often - but not always - one ‘owner’ most recent content is placed at the top
of the page may contain many different types of data many different applications
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What is a blog for ?
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What is a blog for ?
expressing thoughts and opinions collecting related information creating a community focus as a journal or diary disseminating resources as a noticeboard
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What different kinds of blog are there?
personal business teaching and learning lifestyle news/political magazine
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Where do you find blogs?
As with everything on the internet, there are lots of ways to find things, but two good starting points for blogs are:
www.technorati.com www.blogsearch.google.com
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Find four blogs
www.technorati.com www.blogsearch.google.com
Activity
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Discussion
What interested you about the blogs you found?
What was similar about each blog? What was different?
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BLOGGING 2Building a blog
Paul McNultyStevenson College
03/06/2010
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Building a blog
Blogs can either be hosted on your own
server or online
We’re going to be looking at online
hosting today
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Building a blog
These are some sites you can use: wordpress blogger livejournal Tumblr Typepad (not free)
…there are many others!
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Building a blog
We’re going to be using wordpress today
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Building a blog
www.wordpress.com will allow you make and host a blog online
www.wordpress.org supplies software to host a blog on your own server
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Building a blog
Spend just 1 minute thinking about the name of your blog*
* that’s just for this session – when you do it again, take as long as you like!
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Building a blog
First, we’ll need to sign up
Go to: www.wordpress.com
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Building a blog
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<<< if you see this,
choose another name
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Building a blog
You’re in the driving seat of your blog!
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explore the interface
insert content
Activity
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Building a blog
You can extend the blog with:
tags and categories themes widgets plugins blogrolls linkback methods
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BLOGGING 3Taking it further
Paul McNultyStevenson College
03/06/2010
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How might you use blogs in your field?
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