What is a blog? Watch the following video.
Click here for Blogs in plain English
Create an Educator Account on www.weebly.com . Follow the steps and once you are done, you will start from step 1.
- Once you've logged in, click on "New Post"
- Give your post an appropriate title
- Give your "Categories" at the bottom a name (organizational purpose)
- Make your post interesting by adding pictures, video from YouTube/Vimeo, an audio recording, files for readers to download
- Embed documents or videos for readers to see right there on your posting
- Click "Save to Drafts" if you're not finished yet and want to continue later
- Click "Publish Live" when your post is ready
- At the top right hand corner, click "Publish" for your audience to see
Categories - used to label a post by category/group (Blogging, English, GD, Writing, Reading, Math)
Embed - putting something into your blog as a part of your post (video, PPT, Prezi, MS Word, Excel, Google Doc, PDF); to embed documents use Slideshare or Scribd
Hyperlink - creating a link to another webpage or within the same page (Hyperlink to dictionaries, educational game sites, Mathletics)
Click here for a Video Tutorial
Post - Your entry is your post (this is a post)
Publishing - Making your post available for viewing by others
Attaching a file/Uploading file - just like in a email, you can attach a file for retrieval (MS Word, Excel, PDF, PPT, Audio, Movie)
Save to Drafts - work in progress, saves work so you can work on it later