LO2 - To understand what a blog is and be able to create one
Starter
•Go to http://www.faceyourmanga.com/
•Create an avatar of your self
•Print screen your avatar and paste it into Adobe Fireworks
•Crop your avatar
•Save it in your area as myavatar.png
Main
Setting up your own Blogger account is simple.
- Log into your Wildern email account
- Open up a new tab (Control T) and type in www.blogger.com
- Because your Wildern email is set up through Gmail, Blogger automatically logs you in. All you have to do is enter your password (the same password as your email account)
- Add a display name and tick to accept the terms
- Add a Blog Title and Blog address (this is the name that you would like to appear in the URL bar)
- Choose a template (you can change this later)
- Your blog has been created! You can now create your first blog post! Give it a title, some body and click Publish Post to publish it to your blog
If you want to watch a video showing the above then see below
Plenary
- Create a new post for your blog with the title "My First Post"
- On your post tell me what you have acheived in today's lesson
