Linking to Your Friends Blog

If you want to link up with your friends blog follow these steps:

At the top right hand side of your blog you will see 'Customise'. 

Click on 'Customise', and this will take you to the editable layout of your blog.

Click on 'Add a gadget" and a box will appear with many different gadgets that Blogger offers.

Scroll down the list until you get to 'Blog list' - Click 'Add' and this will add the blog list to the side of your blog.

If you want to add your friends blog address, click on 'Customise" to take you to the editable layout. Go to  'My blog list' and click on 'Edit'.

A box will open. Click on 'Add to list' and a smaller box will open which will allow you to enter the blog address of the blog you wish to link to. Enter or cut and paste the blog URL into this box and click 'Add'.

The blog address will be added in to the main box. You will probably find that your friends blog title will come up - you can change this to their name by clicking 'rename'. Enter the name you wish to give the blog and click 'SAVE'.

Now you will have your friends blogs listed on the right hand side of your blog, and you will see a feed which will let you know if your friend has blogged lately and what the content is.

HAPPY BLOGGING!

Blog Accounts and Learning Lines

Hi everyone,

Thank you to all those students who have managed to set up their blog accounts so quickly. There are still many of you who have not set up your accounts, and there are also many students who have not posted their Learning Line yet. Please do so as soon as possible.

I have noticed that many of you are forgetting to use a capital I when posting. If you are talking about yourself you should always use a capital I not small i - you are important,  so make sure that your post looks important and use a capital I - e.g:

I enjoyed my time at college - not i enjoyed my time at college.

Find out from your new colleagues what their blog addresses are and add them to your blog. Then you can see what they have posted and you can comment on those postings. This will enable you to peer review their work, which is a useful new skill to learn to do. You will read and interpret their work from a different perspective, and your comments can help your colleague to think about what they have written. Don't be afraid to be critical - this is all part of the university experience.

In the next post I will talk you through how to link a friend's blog to your own blog.

WELCOME TO LEARNING AND SKILLS DEVELOPMENT FOR HE AND WORK

WELCOME TO THE BLOG!

I hope that you find the blog useful. I will provide valuable feedback on work that has been posted after every session. This will be generic feedback to the class as a whole, specific feedback will be written as a comment on personal blogs.