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Guide to Blogger

The links below should help you set up and navigate Blogger.

 Key things to plan for when creating and posting in your blog are cultivating a space that is inviting and encourages socialbility. This begins with picking a theme and continues on to posting images, vidoes, and including links. The links below provide instructions for creating and maintaining your blog. Please create your blog by Jan. 24 and share a link on this document.

 Getting started with Blogger: this video tutorial is designed to help you maximize the visibility of your individual blog. For the purposes of the class, you don't need to follow her initial steps of finding the perfect URL or keywords. However, her screen capture instructions for creating your blog and navigating the Blogger dashboard are helpful. Please watch the video and use your existing CNU.edu Google account to create your portfolio blog for the final project. Be sure to edit your profile within Blogger to include an appropriate photo and brief academic/extracurricular description of yourself. Email the instructor your blog URL.

 Google's Blogger.com guide: step-by-step written instructions for Blogger. 

Embedding Video in Blogger: 



Below, I include screenshots to help you learn how to embed images and videos in your blog so you can do more than add links once you begin your portfolio posts. Instructions to augment the screenshots are below. 

 Please note that the screenshot text refers to infogram instead of image/video since I created the screenshots for my COMM 232 class to teach about infograms, but it's all the same when embedding.

INSTRUCTIONS
First, when creating your post in the Blogger dashboard, in the Compose (default) mode, add a couple of lines of text, even if it is "blah blah blah" above and below where you want to embed the image or video. Type "INSERT HERE" between those lines as a marker where you want to paste in your embed code. Sidebar: embed code is different from a URL. Sites that have images and videos that allow embedding will have a distinct embed code.

 Next, click on the HTML view in your post dashboard. Directly in front of where you see the code <br  /> replace the "INSERT HERE" line with the code.
When you click back to Compose view, you should see a marker for the image/video embed. Click Preview in the upper right corner of your post creation dashboard to see that it worked before you publish.


 These steps should work for any embed you need on your blog. Please practice using embed codes from Vimeo, Ted Talk, or other sites in post drafts and report back so we can troubleshoot if needed. (Also, note that since Google owns Blogger and YouTube there is an easy insert video link above for YouTube specific videos--meaning you don't have to embed videos from YouTube via the cumbersome way described here.)

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