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Step by Step Tutorial

 * If you missed the training on how to set up a class blog here is a:
 * **Step by Step Tutorial: http://www.tildee.com/jw09Gi**

Teacher Blogging Challenge
The teacher blogging challenge is a 30 week course offered free by Edublogs and organised by Sue Waters. Luckily they use the same blogging platform and version as we do so a lot of the challenges will be very useful to Aspengrove teachers starting to blog. I highly recommend that you sign up for this challenge and use it as a way to start building an online community.
 * Part 1 - Getting Started
 * this challenge discusses benefits of having a class blog and the parts of a blog.
 * [|Part 2 - Customize you blogs look]
 * Learn how to change your blog's theme
 * See how you can add widgets to sidebars
 * Customize you blog's header
 * Create a custom menu
 * Change your blog's background

More Blogging Resources

 * [|Six Reasons Why Kids Should Know How to Blog]
 * [|Best Embeds for Educational Blogs and Wikis]
 * Three helpful tools to add to your classroom blog
 * A Livebinder of resources on blogging with students
 * [|Blogs as Web Based Portfolios (PDF)]

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