These are the ‘blog how to’ basics that we will be working through as part of the first two or three classes.
Real Basic
- know how to log in
- know the URL of my blog
- know the URL of the subject blog
- be able to post entries to my blog
Defaults
- able to set comment controls
- turn on spam filtering
- set time zone
- know where to change/set email address and change password
- know how to recover lost password
- write an appropriate ‘about’ page
- making the about page visible
- linked to the disclaimer page from your footer or sidebar (http://www.mediafactory.org.au/disclaimer)
Writing Outwards
- can create a link from text in a blog post out to somewhere else
- built a blogroll
- uses different ‘sections’ (categories) in my blogroll
- provided links to other services and/or sites I am on or use
- use categories with posts
- use tags with posts
Making it Mine
- can use the edit tools in the post editor
- have experimented with a different template
- have modified a template using widgets
- have modified the title, subtitle, colours and header of my blog
- make categories visible/available on my template
- made tags visible/available on my template
- added pages
Beginning to Weave
- posted a photo in a blog post
- embedded a vine clip in a blog post
- embedded a photo of fine from flickr, instagram or some other photo service into my blog
- embedded video of mine from flickr, vine, vimeo, or some other video service in my blog
- send something from my phone to my blog