Using+Blogger


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[] (you will need a Google account)

Blogger is a great service and of course it is all free!

Features

 * Easy to use with ability to adjust font colour and alignment.
 * Posts are saved as you type.
 * Ability to change the URL for your website at a later date.
 * Uploaded photos are automatically added to your Picasa Web Album where you can organise them into albums.
 * Uploaded videos are uploaded to Blogger directly and hosted on Google Video.
 * Can set level of permission of who can see it and contribute to it.
 * Can moderate blog comments.
 * Can add to your blog using a mobile phone by sending a text to go@blogger.com - the blog is automatically set up and you can then customise it later on the web or merge with an existing blog.
 * Can have multiple authors added to the blog.
 * Integration with a number of Google Apps such as Google Reader, Google Docs, Google Gadgets and Google Calendar
 * Most web 2.0 tools will list Blogger when giving ability to link to blog.
 * Very stable and likely to stay this way as it is bankrolled by Google. Also updated all the time.

Downsides

 * Navigation bar at the top can lead people to unsuitable sites. Go to this blog for a lesson on [|how to remove the navigation bar] (very simple)
 * Not designed specifically for education so it doesn't have educational community behind the scenes.
 * No ability to set up additional wiki style pages on the blog.
 * Not as many templates as Edublogs.

Video tutorials
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 * ===Getting started with Blogger===
 * ===Creating a Blog roll in Blogger===

Other links for more support
[|Magic with Blogs] A blog that has a series of 118 instructional videos with all you will ever need to know about Blogger. [|Blogger Help Centre] The official help pages for Blogger [|Bling4YourBlog] Created by Allanah King this is a great resource though some of the screenshots are a little out of date. This video shows how to add a Google Gadget to your blog [|The Cutest Blog on the Block] Gives you free background templates that you can use with your blog. Once you choose your template, it gives you detailed instructions on how to apply it to your blog. [|CNA Practice Test] - Are you prepared to appear for the CNA examination? If you feel nervous or not sure how you would perform in competency evaluation [|cna test questions], then following details would help you to get prepare and judge yourcompetency to pass the competency examination.

Workshop blog
[|Sandpit blog for this workshop] A place to experiment with Blogger

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