Adding Links and Images To Your Blog

1. Click on Chapters.ca 
2. Type in the title of one of your favourite books.
3. Right click the book cover image and choose 'Save picture as...'
4. Rename your image to your book title (no spaces). Don't use the default name.  Example (HungerGames.jpg)
5. Save it to your Word-TEL folder.
6. Now open your Blog and create a new post.
7. Title: My Favourite Book.
8. In the body of the text write My favourite book that I read recently is called book title by author.
9. Select the book title and click Link icon.  Paste the chapters URL for the address.
10. Try to place your author's name in google to see if they have an interesting link. Link your author's name to their particular web site.
11. Click 'Insert Image' (the icon that looks like a mountain with a blue sky).  Browse to your image in your Word-TEL folder. Life should be good now.
12. Publish your post and it should look similar to the following:

My favourite book that I read recently is called The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins.

Sept. 29 - Third Post - Favourite Movies, Things You Like About BTT and Formatting Blogs

I want you to become familiar with some of the formatting that you can do with the blogs. Use the formatting tools that blogger gives you, you will fill in the blanks in your own blog.


My Top 3 Favourite Movies (bold):

1. First movie title (note: you must use the number tool (ordered list) in the blogger format toolbar to get the numbers....DO NOT PRESS THE NUMBER 1 OR NUMBER 2...)
2. Second movie title
3. Third movie title (note: to get rid of the numbering, you must press enter twice)

What I liked about BTT so far (in no particular order and at least 2 things): (blue text and bold)

• I like using TEL...
• I like my teachers.

Do these things to become familiar with Blogs. (Web Logs)

Sept. 29 - Top 50 Blogs - Article from March 8, 2009

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/mar/09/blogs

This link might give you some information about why Blogs are so powerful.
Read some of the blogs that are listed.

Mr. Hayakawa

Sept. 29 - Adjusting your settings for your Blog

Important 1.

1. login to blog
2. click settings.
3. click Formatting.
4. For Time Zone please choose (GMT-5:00) Eastern Time - Toronto
5. click save settings at the bottom of the page.

    

****Important 2.******

 

If you need to change your BTT blog url.

 

• Login to your blog and click Settings.
• Click Publishing. Adjust your blog address.
• This only pertains to people who didn't place their nameBTT.blogspot.com
• Please e-mail Andromachi Angelis and Steven Hayakwa with your BTT blog address. Hold Shift + click on View Blog and then copy the URL (Uniform Resource Locator)

 Mr. Hayakawa

 

 

 

September 25 - First BTT Blog - 2 entries

Hello BTT 1, 2 and 3.

I would like you all to create a Blog (Web Log) account this week. You may or may not be successful during class time initially, but you are to complete your first blog entry today since we will be starting an assignment tomorrow using Microsoft Word.

You will need to go to http://www.blogger.com

Follow the steps to create your own blog.

Please have your username as YourFirstNameLastNameBTT2009.

Note: Your blog will be hosted at http://Yourusername.blogspot.com (no www address)


Keep your username simple, your site simple and your password simple. You will be asked to enter a few blog entries during this first term.

First Entry: Please just write a few paragraphs telling about what your computer skills are currently. Do you use e-mail? chat? word processing? build web sites? build computers? Tell us everything about yourself and your skill level.

Second Entry: Please write a brief paragraph about a person you admire or inspires you. Who are they and why do you think they are special? We will be doing a research project on this individual starting tomorrow, so think carefully.

Thanks,

Mr. Hayakawa