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How to create a blog: Edinburgh How to create a Blog These notes will help you to create a blog. Whenever the instructions say Click, make sure you click just once and watch the progress bar to see what’s happening. If you click a button more than once, things may go wrong! to Glow. Stage 1: Creating a Glow Group 1. On the Glow Light screen, click Create. 2. In the centre of the screen click Glow Group. 3. Click the underlined School Site 4. In the Name box, type in Name of Blog. 5. Don’t change anything else on this screen. Click Create Glow Group. Author: Fiona Hunter Page 1 of 11
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How to create a blog: Edinburgh
How to create a Blog
These notes will help you to create a blog.
Whenever the instructions say Click, make sure you click just once and watch the progress bar to see what’s happening. If you click a button more than once, things may go wrong!
to Glow.
Stage 1: Creating a Glow Group1. On the Glow Light screen, click Create.
2. In the centre of the screen click Glow Group.
3. Click the underlined School Site
4. In the Name box, type in Name of Blog.
5. Don’t change anything else on this screen. Click Create Glow Group.
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6. The screen will refresh and then your new Glow Group will be displayed. Click Add to Favourites.
7. Click OK to confirm.
Stage 2: Creating a blog8. Click Modify Shared Page.
9. Click Add Web Parts.
10. Click Search.
11. In the ‘Search text’ box type blog and click Go.
12. Click Virtual Server Gallery.
13. Click Add.
14. Look at where the heading ‘Glow Blog’ is shown near the top of the screen. Just below it click Create.
15. In the ‘Blog Name’ box, type in the name of the blog.
16. Don’t change anything else on this screen. Click OK.
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Stage 3: Adding a button to the Glow Light screen
1. In the Blog web part click View.
2. Your blog will open in a new window and you will be able to see what it looks likes for the first time. Maximise this window to make it full screen.
You are now going to place a link to your blog in the Glow Light Page.
3. Click in the address bar at the top of the screen.
4. Highlight the whole web address and copy it. (Either click the right mouse button and click Copy or go to Edit and then Copy.)
5. Minimize the window with your blog in it, to return to your Glow Group.
6. Click the Glow logo to return to the Glow Light screen.
7. Click the Settings icon.
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8. In the Button text box, type in Class Blog.
9. In the URL box, paste in the link you copied earlier.
10. Click Add Button.
11. Click Done.
12. A new button will be displayed on your Glow Light screen. You will use this button in the future to get to yourblog. Click the button now to make sure it works.
Stage 4: Customising your blog 13. Click on the Pages icon
14. Click on Add New
This is where you can add your Blogging Rules and All About Us pages.
Give it the title About Us
Once you are happy with your page, click on Publish
Repeat these steps and create a page called Latest Posts and Safe Blogging Rules
15.Click on the Appearance button
16.Click on Widgets
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17. Click and Drag the Pages button to the Sidebar
18. Give it the Title Pages
19. Click and Drag the Tag Cloud button to the sidebar
The front of your blog will now have the Pages and Tag Cloud displayed.
You can add other Widgets as appropriate.
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20. At the bottom of the left-hand menu, click Settings.
16. Click Reading.
17. Check that the ‘Reading Settings’ page is now shown.
18. Click the button next to ‘A static page’.
19. From the ‘Front page’ menu choose About.
20. From the ‘Posts page’ menu choose My Latest Posts.
21. At the bottom of the screen click Save Changes.
22. In the left-hand menu, click Plugins.
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23. Click in the boxes next to ‘Anarchy Media Player’, ‘Lightbox 2’ and ‘Resize on Upload Plus’.
24. From the ‘Bulk Actions’ menu choose Activate.
25. Click Apply.
26. Click on Dashboard home.
27. Changing the Header Image.
Click on Appearance
Click on Custom Header
Click on Choose File and browse the
computer for the image you would like to use.
Crop Header to fit.
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At the top of Dashboard click New Post.
27. In your first post, you could write about your favourite book, a recent achievement or a goal you have set yourself this year.
28. Enter a title and some content for the post.
Stage 5: Adding an Image
Click on the Image Icon
Browse Files for the image
Insert into Post
29. On the right side of the screen is the ‘Post Tags’ section. Tags are also like labels, but you can choose these yourself and they can be very specific.
Type in suitable tags for your post and
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click Add.
30. At the right of the screen click Publish.
31. Click Visit Site.
32. Click My Latest Posts to see your published post. Well done!
A few blog posts that might be of interest are:
Adding videos into a Glow Blog: http://glo.li/axFFUQ
Adding Vokis into a Glow Blogs post:http://glo.li/dD5ppl
Changing the layout of your Glow Blog and adding widgetshttp://glo.li/dkDk82
How to build a school website using Glow Blogs:http://glo.li/cUHt1E
Importing an existing blog into Glow Blogs:http://glo.li/b0WjhK
Finding public Glow Blogs:http://glo.li/9mhQWZ
Be inspired – examples of blogs from across Scotlandhttp://glo.li/bDbCG6
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