Setting up a blog
NOTE (added 11 am, 1/25). As you may have discovered, many of us having been having problems with blogger. If you’re among the lucky ones, Congrats! If you’re not, try edublogs.org instead. It’s quite a simple process–see blog post below in main part of blog.
Go to the blogger site to create your own blog. The video below walks you through the steps.
If you use your Access BCC email for your google account, be sure to get the second half of the address right: after your first initial, last name, and two digits, your address should end in @mail.bristol.mass.edu. Also, be sure to write down and remember your user name and password. They can be retrieved or reset if you type your email address correctly.Once you get your blog set up, go to the “outside” of the blog to retrieve the URL from the address bar. Please be sure to give or email this blog address so I can access your blog and include you in the class blogroll. Also please send me the email address you used to set up your google account. (If you have any problems or if you prefer to wait, we will be going over this in class on 1/26, which will be held in a computer lab, so everyone should be able to get blog s set up and to get a little practice then.)
Don’t worry too much about the initial set-up of the blog. You can change most of the settings, like name of blog, later. As you see other people’s blogs, you may be inspired to do some personalizing, changing colors or themes. You may do as much or as little of this as you like–just please make sure your blog is legible (no dark letters on dark backgrounds, for example).
