Blogging 101
- What is a blog?
- How do I find blogs?
- Scholastic's Top 20 Teacher Blogs
- Edublog Award Winners and Nominees
- Technorati Blog Directory
- Google Blog Search
- How do I subscribe to a blog?
- Blog Examples
- Teacher-Created Blogs
- First Grade Sweeties
- Kindergarten Cowpokes
- Kindergarten Smarties
- Kindergarten Campers
- BHS Literary Review
- KES Library Blog
- BMS Library Rocks
- CSI Investigations
- Read Away!
- BES Library
- 3rd Grade Reading Bunch
- Education Blogs
- Instructional Technology Blogs
- Click here to sign into Blogger with your Google (or Gmail) account. You know what to do! Let me know if you get stuck!
- Once your blog is created, click here to add it to our NEW BISD teacher blog database!
Advanced Blogging
- You've learned how to locate blogs of interest and you've even created your own blog! Now let's take the customization of your blog beyond what the Blogger Template Designed can do!
- Use a Pre-Designed HTML template
- Cutest Blog on the Block
- LeeLou Blogs
- Click here to see how it's done.
- Create Your Own Custom Header Image
- Step 1: Create an image for your header. (I like Picnik.)
- Step 2: Upload that image to your Blogger template.
- Click here to see how it's done.
- Add Stand-Alone Pages to Your Blog (About Me, Contact Me, Homework...)
- Click here to see how it's done.
- Add a Custom Signature to Blog Posts
- Step 1: Create a custom signature (you can use Picnik or try out MyLiveSignature)
- Step 2: Upload it to a hosting site like Flickr or Photobucket so it has a unique URL.
- Step 3: Insert a piece of code (shown in instructions below) and the image URL to your blog template code.
- Click here for step-by-step instructions.