Week 2: Creating a Blog with Blogger

This week, we're asking yinz to create a blog (thing # 2!) Blogs are becoming more and more important in the world of media and information sharing. Check out wikipedia's explanation of blogs to see just how powerful they can be! Below is a quick and dirty guide to setting up a blog on Blogger. Just press play and follow along!




Also, check out this explanation of blogging from the CommonCraft Show.


Now, it's your turn! This week's discovery exercises:

• create a blog on blogger (To view your blog: Your blog address is http://(xxxx).blogspot.com, (xxxx)=the unique name of your blog. Be sure to also write down your blog address. Make this blog a special 23Things blog to use for just posting about your experience on this project.
  
• write a post about your experience so far with 23Things. Is it intimidating? Do you feel connected? Are you feeling lost? Anything! You'll be using this blog to track your progress.
  
• register your blog by leaving a comment on the week 2 post at the 23Things-n'at blog with your blog's address and your name and library. The planning team will be keeping tabs on how everyone's doing, providing encouragement, answering questions and so on so we need to make sure we know where your blog lives. We're also going to ask you (in week 3) to subscribe to 10 23Things Participants' blogs but don't worry about that just yet.
• have fun!

IMPORTANT NOTE: How you choose to identify yourself on your blog is your choice. You can blog under a screen name, anonymously, or as yourself.

For more fun stuff on blogging, go to the 23Things-n'at wiki page on week 2.