How to create your Blogger blog

It's not that hard to create a blog these days. Everybody's doing it! Here are some instructions for creating a Blogger blog, which I encourage most of us to use so we will be able to help each other. However, if you have some blogging software you prefer, that's fine. Everyone should sent me a link to their blog once they have it set up.

One place to get help is at the Support Center for Blogger, especially the Getting Started Guide.

But for starters, here are my basic instructions:

1. Go to: https://www.blogger.com/start
2. Choose "Create a Blog"
3. You will be asked to create a Google account. If you already have one (i.e. if you have a gmail address), you can use that (Select where it asks you to "sign in first" at the top). But you may want to create a separate account for this class, if you don't want your personal and school information mixed together. You can create a Google account with any email address on this page, including your BC email address.
4. Now you get to name your blog and pick a web address for it. Please name your blog other than "Mass Media Class Blog" or something like that. Give it a unique name that is likely to be recognizably different from the others. Otherwise, it will be tough to tell all the blogs apart!
5. Choose a template- how you want your blog to look from the options they present. You can customize it more later.
6. Start Blogging. Play around and start getting a feel for the controls. Try posting! You can always delete it.

Send me the name and address of your blog. Become a follower of the class blog!