1	Blogging in online communities of practice: Impact on language learning and teacher professional development Vance Stevens Lecturer in Computing Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi URL for this handout: http://tinyurl.com/9pqd7
2	Introducing the co-presenters Barbara Dieu - http://evo05.blogspot.com/ Sergei Gridyushko and Susanne Nyrop and their Mystery Guest: http://www.goinupstream.blogspot.com Teresa Almeida d'Eça: http://www.malhatlantica.pt/teresadeca/ Buthaina Alothman http://khalda.blogspot.com/ and http://162group3.blogspot.com/ Hala Fawzi http://halahassanfawzi.blogspot.com
3	Start your own blog with Blogger Start here: http://www.blogger.com Instructions: http://tinyurl.com/md9i
4	Create your Blogger account You can create many blogs under the Blogger Account you are starting here. Remember your user name and password You can recover both if you give a valid email address Display name is how you sign your posts and comments in other blogs Accept the terms and click CONTINUE
5	Name your blog The blog title appears on your blog page and can be changed later in Settings Your blog address should be something anyone can easily write and remember. Note your URL. This is the web address you give everyone you want to show your blog to.
6	Choose a template The template defines what your blog will look like People see what is in the template whenever they visit your blog - the blog CONTENT changes as you add and edit posts You can click on a template to PREVIEW it. This is NOT choosing it. To CHOOSE a template, select it by clicking its radio button and then click CONTINUE
7	Wait while your blog is created Blogger is setting up your blog You still can’t see your blog on the Internet You have to POST to it first Think of something to say and click on START POSTING (Don’t worry about what you write; you can always change it later)
8	Your first POST CREATE posts under Posting / Create The TITLE appears above the post in the blog In COMPOSE view there are many tools for creating posts In EDIT HTML view you can post in HTML code You can save your post and work on it later (no one will see it) In order for the world to see it you must PUBLISH your post
9	Always view in New Window You should be able to see your blog now Best to view it in a NEW window. Each time you change and re-publish your blog, you can see the changes by refreshing this new browser window
10	Editing your posts
11	After Edit – Refresh
12	You can change the template You can change the appearance of your blog by choosing a new template The default view is to see the code Choose PICK NEW to select a new template
13	What is this warning about? If you have made changes to the code of the old template, these will not be preserved in the new one An example of changing the code is creating links in the sidebar If you haven’t changed the code, ignore the warning
14	Re-publish with the new template Changes to the template require you to republish your blog before the world can see them
15	After republishing – Refresh
16	Changing the Settings Settings change things that are seen by all visitors to your blog You can change the title of your blog from what you called it when you Named your Blog You can write a description of your blog that will appear below the title You can include HTML (such as links to pictures) in your description
17	Save your Settings and republish When done, scroll down and SAVE your settings Finally, republish your blog
18	When you log on again … Next time at http://www.blogger.com log on to your account with your User Name and Password Use your Dashboard to create a new blog or work on an old one