samanthajc

 (03/02/08)

This week in online communications I learned how to get started on making my own personal website.  I learned that we are creating these websites so that we can teach the teachers at our school, Joseph A. Foran High School, how to use edublogs so that in the future they can use this website with their students.  So far I have learned that using hotmail as your email source does not work too well with this website.  Hotmail considers this website as junk, or does not send the emails at all.  In order for this to work, I have recently created a gmail account, scsapilla@gmail.com.  After creating my new email, I was then able to activate my blog with the password they sent to my gmail.  Seeing how the password they send you is difficult to remember, I figured out how to change the password to something I will always remember.  I learned how to pick a theme so that my website is a little more personal and more interesting to look at; I choose the blue bird.  I also learned how to add to my sidebar.  I added recent posts, archives, google search, edublogs search, and categories to the sidebar.  After browsing the website, I learned how to add a plugin and activate the Advanced Editor which adds more styling options to my WYSIWYG (what you see if what you get) post editor, like font color, special characters, copy from word, etc.  I learned how to create, edit, save and publish a post also, which is obvious because this would not be here if I hadn’t.  And basically this is as far as I went because I did not learn what to do next.  As for next week, that is a whole different story and I am sure I will learn more ways to improve my edublogs website.