Making a Blogger Account for the Culminating Project

For part of the culminating you must create a blog where you will post your culminating projects' progress. For my blog, I just used Blogger since the email address I used for the course was a Gmail account, and you log into Blogger using a Google account. There are other blog sites out there, but in this post I'll show how to start using Blogger.

1. If you don't already have a Google account - make one.
(skip this step if you already have a Google account)

Go to www.google.ca and click "Sign In" (Top Right)

Click "Sign Up" (Top Right)

Fill out your information on the right side, "Mobile phone" is optional

Fill out the captcha code, and check "I agree.."

If you can't read your code, click the circle with the arrow to get a new one.

Once finished that part, it will ask if you want to add a photo or change your display name, this can all be changed later, just click "next step" then click "Get started" on the next page.

2. Setting up Blogger

After this you will be redirected to the Google home page, from here you can click "More" and click "Blogger", or just visit www.blogger.com and sign in with the Google account you just created (or that you already have).

It might bring you to a page saying "Confirm Your Profile", if so just click "Continue to Blogger".

If you are not already at www.blogger.com/home then go to there, and to start your blog click "New Blog" and choose a title and an address for it (below).

I'm going to use the "Simple" template for this example

Now that your blog is created, people can go to it by going to the address that you chose, for example this one is www.kylevanhorne17.blogspot.com.

3. Creating a post

Click the orange button to create a new blog post

After clicking this, you'll be taken to a page that looks a lot like Microsoft Word in some ways. Remember to give your posts a title, which you can do in the bar above the post's toolbar (thought I'd mention this since I completely didn't notice the "Post title" bar for my first post).

From here, you're good to go, it's pretty simple:
-"Publish" posts your post to your blog (your 'done' button)
-"Save" saves your post so you can continue it later (similar to "draft" with emails)
-"Preview" previews what your post will look like so far (obviously)
-Toolbar tools will show what they are when hovered over
-As you work on your post, Blogger automatically saves every once in a while, so saving isn't too critical.

Remember to email Mr. Perry the link to your blog as well (www.------.blogspot.com).