Great job all of you returning and new GECCO Squad members on creating some really great movies! I posted the #1 movie- “Surfin’ USA” for you to enjoy and a few more award winners!

Fun Monkeys!

Star Wars

Podcast on other Girls’ blogs…

Soccer

Edunature
Music

Boys’ blogs…A Podcast about the Boys’ Blogs

More blogs from the boys: Sports Scores

Minnesota

1. Initial Preparations

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~ Reply to this post with your favorite, yet useful site for all of us to use. It must be something we could all benefit from. For example- a free font web site, animated gif library, etc. Make sure you give us the url address so we make create links on our own blogs.

~ Your blog will be seen by everyone today and tomorrow so we can critique each other’s blogs and improve them. Please finish the following today:

1. Create at least 3 categories for your blog- for posts and for links.
2. Add 2 links to other websites for each category
3. Create an introduction page to your blog. State what your blog is about, it’s purpose, what you hope to achieve with your blog and add 1 or 2 photos there too.
4. Create a podcast for your intro page! Write a script to record today…welcome to “blog name”……hope you find it helpful, interesting, it is about…..etc.
5. You will then come to me to record this and we will try to post them to my blog today and Friday.
6. If you finish with all of that! Go to Webmonkeys for kids and begin reading all of the lessons.

Yesterday you practiced how to upload your photos to your blog and create links to pictures and text. You should be an expert at it by now!
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1. Turn in your Parent Permission and emergency cards today!
2. Have you listed your blog address and an email address in the post for Monday? Please do so before your begin today’s lesson.
3. View the “Editing your Sidebar” tutorial.
4. Review the admin tabs in your blog
• ~ Go through each tab and its sub categories to become familiar with each.
• ~ Links- decide what links you want associated with your blog. For example: web pages you want your visitors to go to; a family slide show; etc.
• ~ Categorize your links and pages so if your sidebar allows it, they will be better organized.
5. Getting pictures from the Internet
• ~ Set up your folder at vmhs113-student to save pictures in this week. It will be deleted on Friday! Upload what you want to your blog and you don’t have to save them to a flash drive.
• ~ Save the folder as: first name, last initial- ie: steinm
6. Share your blog with the class!
7. Subscribing to blogs- RSS Feeds
8. Bloglines Website

1. Housekeeping: parent permission, emergency cards, email addresses
2. Introduction of Blogs. Go to PE 4 Fun, Mr. Martin’s Class, and ~Gecco~squad blogs
• ~Students write their email address as a comment to first day’s post.
3. Discuss Web page/blog possibilities. Brainstorm ideas.
• ~ Decide on “user name” aka URL address ” “.learnerblogs.org. No caps or spaces in the username and it CANNOT be changed later. Think of creative license plate names using numbers with letters.
• ~ Decide on the title of the blog (should have something to do with the topic and can be typed as you want to see it on the blog)
4. Go to Learnerblog.org
• ~ create the new blog and use lmuhlhauser@mvusd.org as the email address for passwords to be emailed to.
• ~ print each student’s password out as they come in, then delete from email.
5. Once students have blogs- together as a class go to admin page.
• ~ Options; Discussion; Comments; uncheck box- “email me whenever anyone posts a comment” – click update options (like saving them)
• ~ Options; Subscribe to comments; change the email address to your own- click update options.
• ~ Users; profile; look at all the sections and change the email address; display name publicly as; biography (optional)- check with parents on what you should write here. Remember the Internet Safety Rules! Click update options.
6. View “Posting” tutorial.
• ~ pause throughout and try it on your own blog as the video goes along
• ~ note sidebar options: publish, draft, private.
7. View “Presentation” tutorial
• ~ Choose theblog style noting how the sidebar is organized and if the theme (header) can be modified.
• ~ Does the sidebar allow for separate pages to be viewed? Does it separate the categories of comments?
• ~ It can be changed at anytime!
8. Photos and document attachments.
• ~ At the bottom of the post, click browse. Locate a photo or document in the file of your choice on the computer
• ~ Upload the photo or document. This will save the item in the cyber-space server so that your blog will be able to find the photo and display it on your blog.
• ~ The photo will show up in the box. You must click and drag it into your post for it to be there.
• ~ You can position the photo anywhere on your post using the position markers above. Click on the picture and try it. Save your work often!
9. When finished with the above options, publish your post!
10. To get back to your admin page, locate the admin link on the sidebar. You can edit or delete any post from the admin page at any time.
11. Suggestion: Have 2 browser window open to view your post as you edit it without going out of the admin page. You must refresh the browser to see the pages!

Webmonkey Internet Safety Rules  and WKN Safety.

Read, print, and sign the parent permission form for the Web Design class. Return this Wednesday to me. webdesignpermission.doc

• ~*~Monday, July 3rd- Blogs, Internet Safety and permission slips
• ~What you will need for this class
• *This blog address! http://lmuhlhauser.edublogs.org
• *Emergency cards, permission slips turned in, email address and an Internet connection at home
• *Head phones (any type will do)
• *Flash drive (AKA memory stick) 256 MB would be best! (you can’t ever have enough memory!) If you can’t get one right away, your work can be saved on the Vista’s server)
• *Great attitude, patience and readiness to learn! We will be flying through a lot of information so I’ll need your undivided attention.
• ~*~Tuesday, July 4th – Happy Birthday USA! NO CLASS!
• You have homework though! Get your blog finished and read the Webmonkey for kids introduction to web pages.
• ~*~Wednesday, July 5th- Fine tune your Blog and share it with the class!
• ~*~Thursday, July 6th- Introduction to Webmonkey for Kids
• ~*~Friday, July 7th- Webmonkey continued…

I look forward to working with you…if you ever have any questions, we will be using this blog as our communication source so you can see it in action!

• ~No rude or foul comments
• ~No negative comments about other people (even if you’re kidding)
• ~Comments need to be relavant to the subject posted.
• ~Keep it short and sweet…and to the point. One smiley face is enough to express your joy!
• ~EVERYONE in the world can read what you’ve written so- proof read your comments; check for spelling and grammatical errors
• ~Make sure what you wrote is what you wanted to say.