blogger tutorial

A few brave souls have posted to the blog, and I'd like to encourage the whole class to jump in. Questions, comments, reflections, or articles are all welcome and relevant. Blogger may seem intimidating, but learning it here in a low-stress environment can enable you to add "familiar with web applications" to your resume.

The "dashboard," or the page you get to upon signing on with your login name and password, has tools to explain blogging in general and Blogger as an interface. Any question you have is likely to be addressed at the Blogger Basics page or the Blogger Help page.

In class, I tried to demonstrate one tool that makes blogging articles simple and fast, called the Blog This button. It's an option you can choose when downloading the Google Tool Bar. Alternatively, visit this page and drag the Blog This button into your browser toolbar. By drag I mean click on the text and move your mouse with the button still pressed down, release the mouse when you get to your browser's toolbar. With this you can highlight text from any website, press Blog This, and the text you selected will automatically be linked and quoted on our class blog.

Finally, if you haven't logged in to Blogger yet because you need your invite email resent, please let me know through email or in class.