Session 1 - Introduction To Social Media & Blogging

How did your team go with the Social Media Icon game?

How much social media do you use? How Often? Are you addicted?

Creating a Blog using Google Blogger.

If you don't already have one, you will need to create a Google Account.Once you have your Google account, you can access all of the Google Social Media tools. The one we will be looking at today is Blogger.

What is a Blog?

Do you already have a Blog? What type of Blog do you have? What sorts of things do you Post?

I have lots of Blogs, but my first Blog was created to document the process of building our current home. It followed all of the stages of the building process until the house was complete and we were able to move in.

Creating your Blog

Using the browser of your choice, go to the Blogger home page: www.blogger.com

If you have already created Blogs with Blogger, you will see a list of all your Blogs. You can simply click the New Blog button on the top left hand side of the screen

If you do not have a Google Account, you will need to create one.

Once you have created an account, you can create your Blog

You Blog will be in your Blog list and you can start your first Post.

If you don't want the world to see your Blog, you can change the settings.

Don't forget to save your changes.

Make sure you write down your URL and other details so you can access this again at a later stage. You will be using your Blog to post your findings for some research tasks for this class.