French Immersion Crew

Getting Started

        Alright! Hello, Frenchies. I bet a lot of you are wondering what's going on with this here thinganamabing, so let me explain it to you: This is the internet. The "internet" allows people (like you) to stay in contact with other people (like me.) Ok, those of you haven't already figured that bit out, can just give up right now, 'cause if you can't handle that much, you're in trouble. But I digress.
        Arun and i figured that it might be a cool idea if we could have a nice, easy way for everyone from back home to stay in touch, and keep up to date with each others various achievements or failures. Hence, this website was born. Basically, the idea is, anytime you get an idea in your head, you can post a message up here for everyone to read, and comment on. We've also got an online photo album you can see here.
        The way we're gonna do all this is by combining two great, free services Blogger and Flickr. These are by far the easiest and most robust web apps of their kind, and they're actually pretty fun to use. Blogger is where we add text messages, and Flickr is for photosharing.
        Lets start with Blogger.
        First off, if you haven't received an email invitation from me too join Blogger, let me know, and I'll send you one right away. If you've got one, good stuff, keep reading.

1. Getting Signed Up
        Follow the link in the email, and, assuming you don't already have a Blogger account, click the "Create an Account" button at the bottom of the screen.


        Fill in your desired user name and password, and enter in your email address. For your display name, make sure you enter in your FULL NAME, not just some random nick name or something. For example, "Lizzlefoshizzle" becomes "Lisl Baker." That way everything looks nice and organized. Lisl.

2. Say Something, Damnit!
        Once you've successfully completed that, you'll be brought to what Blogger calls the Dashboard. From here, you can edit your profile, find other blogs and do all sorts of other shit we'll deal with later. For now, you should see a list of your blogs, including French Immersion Crew. Click on it.


        Now you are presented with a list of posts. Creating a new post is easy as pie. All you gotta do is click "Create New Post," enter in a title, then type in whatever mumbo jumbo you've thought up. You can save the post to publish it later, of you can just publish it instantly by clicking the button at the bottom of the page.


        Wait for it to be published, then you click on "View Blog" to see what your post looks like to the rest of the world.


        You can also comment on yours of other peoples' posts.


3. Step 3
        There is no step 3. It really is that simple. I'll be back tomorrow to tell you how to add pictures to your post and use Flickr!

Untill then, keep your stick on the ice.

posted by Guest @ 1:44 AM