Tuesday, 1.12: Setting up your blog

Instead of keeping a notebook in the classroom for your writing, you will be setting up your own blog (like this one!)  We will talk later about the expectations and requirements of this journal writing, but for now, you need to set one up!

1. Log on to Blogger and create a profile using your student email address.
    If you have a blog for another class, don't use that one; start a new one.

2. Give your blog a name...preferably your name, or some form of your name

3. Play around with themes. You can always change these things later.
4. Go to  this link to send Higgins your URL ASAP. 

5. Play around with adding pictures, adding widgets, changing the font and colors, etc. Customize it and make it your own!
6. Add a page at the top that is labeled "Journals" to add journal entries as we go this semester
7. You must "turn on" this journal page at the beginning. I'll walk you through how to do this.
7. Add your "I am" poem from yesterday as your first post.  Title should be 'I am', and you MUST put a label of #poetrymonday if you want it to be graded.


Today, play around with the different features, etc. and make your blog reflect your personality!