Blogger Help

Hi all,
I'm loving reading your intro poems - thank you thank you for sharing them. Digging through the folders on my computer, I found these Blogger hints, which originally came from the FAWC class I took with Shannon (and which was my first experience with Blogger). Hope they are helpful!
Kasey

POSTING AND COMMENTING

Once you are logged in at blogger.com, you will see your dashboard, with a list of your blogs.  Next to your class’s name you will see an orange pencil icon, for Create New Post.  Click on that orange pencil, and you can post your own work.   I like to keep two screens open, one with  blogger.com, to see the dashboard and posting options, and another screen with the blog itself.

Lower down on the right, on the blog itself, you will see a list of other posts, called the Blog Archive.   You can use this like a table of contents to make sure you have seen all the posts: click the arrow next to a date, and all the posts from that date will appear by Title.  It’s useful to put your name in the Title of your posts, so that people can tell who posted what, just looking at the Titles in the Blog Archive. 

Click on a post, scroll down, and you will see COMMENTS:  click on COMMENTS, and you can comment on the post.  Scroll up, and you can see your classmates’ and teacher’s comments. You can also REPLY to a COMMENT.

If your word processing software is updated and your browser is a fresh version of Firefox, you can copy and paste work from your documents with the formatting you want, no problem. 

It’s a good idea to work in a document first, and then paste your writing into the blog.  That way, internet connection problems won’t make your hard work go away.  You can also edit posts by clicking on the pencil icon at the bottom of your posts after you post them.  You can also edit or delete any post  by going through "New Post" and either clicking "Publish" or "Close."  You'll see a list of all your posts and comments, then, and you can edit or delete things there.