Now that you’ve done some exploring around this website and understand how this program will work, it’s time to setup your very own personal blog to begin recording your thoughts, discoveries and exercises in. For this program, we recommend that you use Blogger*, a popular free online blog hosting service that is extremely easy to use.
Creating a blog using Blogger takes just three steps:
- Create an account
- Name your blog
- Select your template
- To add posts: The maintenance interface that you will use to add posts, edit or change the step-up your blog is accessed online at http://www.blogger.com/ Be sure to write down your login and password.
- To view your blog: Your blog address is http://(xxxx).blogspot.com, (xxxx)=the unique identifier you entered in Step 2. Be sure to also write down your blog address.
- Freevlog’s Quicktime Tutorial: Setup a Free Blogger Blog Note: Ignore the opening comments about downloading Firefox if your PC doesn’t have it. This will work in Explorer just fine.
- Blogger’s Quick Tutorial
Discovery Exercise
- Setup a blog for yourself through Blogger.
- Add a test post or two. Note: Use one of your test posts to create an entry about the habits among the Seven and 1/2 Habits of Lifelong Learners that are easiest and hardest for you and why.
- Have fun!!!!
* Use of Blogger is only a recommendation. There are other blog hosting sites and if you feel more comfortable with those, please feel free to use one of them instead.
