For Thing 2, you'll be adding media, customizing your blogs with gadgets and labeling the posts.
First, add some media to your blog. It's easy to add links
and images--you can see the icons above. To add a link, just highlight
the word you want to be a link and click on link. For example, I might
want to include a link to my teaching website.
The "add image" icon is next to the Link icon. It's very easy to add images, like this rare photo of me teaching.
You can add a movie, too, from your camera, phone, or YouTube. Here's a video feature story I made a while ago about an Easter Island statue in Iowa.
Say something about the media you chose, too. I chose these items to give you a sense of how you can use the blog to promote yourself as a competent and digital-savvy person.
Next, add some gadgets to your blog to give your readers more information about you. Gadgets that share information and make your blog easier to use are available on the layout page of Blogger. Go to your dashboard and find the Layout icon on the left-hand side. When you click it, you get a schematic of your blog.
You can see that there are many places to customize your blog. Along the top, you can create your own favicon to replace the orange blogger one. You can customize what your navigation bar looks like.
Throughout the blog--at the top, along the side, and at the bottom, are places for you to add gadgets. To do so, just click on "add gadget." You can choose from the various gadgets available. This blog, 13 Things for 2013, has a blogroll (your blogs) and an email notification gadget. Choose gadgets and customize your blog.
Finally, make it easier for people to enjoy your blog posts: Labeling categorizes your posts, which is really helpful if you blog regularly. To "label" your posts, use the "label" function that's to the right of the edit box. Think of words--labels--that describe what you're writing about. For example, you might label this post with "labels" and "gadgets." Your first post might have "social media" --and some other labels.
You can also
add labels to your first post. Go to your dashboard and click on the
title--that allows you to edit. Add your labels. As you start to
create labels, you can click "show all" if you have trouble remembering
the name of your labels. Note: I am really bad about tagging. Please
be better than I am.
When you're done, write on your blog a bit about your customization and labeling. What will you have to consider when adding media to a blog? How did you choose what to add? And which gadgets did you find most useful? And how did you choose the labels you did?
The "add image" icon is next to the Link icon. It's very easy to add images, like this rare photo of me teaching.
You can add a movie, too, from your camera, phone, or YouTube. Here's a video feature story I made a while ago about an Easter Island statue in Iowa.
Say something about the media you chose, too. I chose these items to give you a sense of how you can use the blog to promote yourself as a competent and digital-savvy person.
Next, add some gadgets to your blog to give your readers more information about you. Gadgets that share information and make your blog easier to use are available on the layout page of Blogger. Go to your dashboard and find the Layout icon on the left-hand side. When you click it, you get a schematic of your blog.
You can see that there are many places to customize your blog. Along the top, you can create your own favicon to replace the orange blogger one. You can customize what your navigation bar looks like.
Throughout the blog--at the top, along the side, and at the bottom, are places for you to add gadgets. To do so, just click on "add gadget." You can choose from the various gadgets available. This blog, 13 Things for 2013, has a blogroll (your blogs) and an email notification gadget. Choose gadgets and customize your blog.
Finally, make it easier for people to enjoy your blog posts: Labeling categorizes your posts, which is really helpful if you blog regularly. To "label" your posts, use the "label" function that's to the right of the edit box. Think of words--labels--that describe what you're writing about. For example, you might label this post with "labels" and "gadgets." Your first post might have "social media" --and some other labels.
When you're done, write on your blog a bit about your customization and labeling. What will you have to consider when adding media to a blog? How did you choose what to add? And which gadgets did you find most useful? And how did you choose the labels you did?
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