Start+your+own+blog

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Start your own blog using Wordpress. The purpose of your blog will be to share favourite reading and viewing experiences.

Setting up your account

 * 1) Look at Mr Derby's "For the Love of Literature" blog at http://mazlit.wordpress.com. Feel free to leave comments on this blog. Do remember that it is a public site, so you must conduct yourself appropriately.
 * 2) To start your own, go to www.wordpress.com
 * 3) Sign up using a similar user name to the one below (e.g. mazbruced). The reason you need the //maz// in front is that just your name and second initial are likely to already be taken. If you find this problem on this sign up, add the next letter of your surname (e.g. mazmitchb can become mazmitchbr).
 * 4) Make sure you write down your password (you will probably be using this site next year).
 * 5) **Make sure that you use your school email and not any other, please!**
 * 6) When prompted, make the name of your blog follow a similar pattern to the following: (mazderbyb, mazsmithj).
 * 7) Give your blog a title such as "Jono's Favourites".

Tweak your settings
There are some minor tweaks that will help us to work better with your blog.
 * 1) Once you have a blog page, go to the top left corner of your screen and click on My Account, then select Edit Profile. On this page, you can change the name that appears on your profile. At this point you can change your name from mazjohns to johns, although the full mazjohns will be your login username. **Please do not use your surname!**
 * 2) Once you have done that, go further down the the left hand column to **USERS**. Click on **Authors and Users** and invite Mr Derby as an administrator to your blog. This will let him help you with problems.

Produce your blog

 * 1) Create entries for your blog with such posts as "My Favourite Film", "My Favourite Novel" etc.
 * 2) Make sure that your entries have excerpts from your texts. For your favourite film, you might want to add video from YouTube at home. You can get excerpts from books from sites such as [|www.bookbrowse.com] or [|www.amazon.com]
 * 3) Remember that you are writing for a real audience and must observe the proper conventions of conduct and digital reputation when producing on your blog.
 * 4) Place a link to your blog below. If you are unsure about creating links, click here.


 * For an interesting blog, imagine that you could invite 6 historical figures to dinner. Who would they be? Why would you choose them? Write a play script for the dinner conversation and publish it in your blog. **

=Mr Derby's Class= Mr Derby: For the Love of Literature Robert.O's [|Robert's Blog] Dolan: [|Dolan's Blog] Mitch B's: [|Mitchell's Blog] Mitchell.K: [|Mitch.K's Favourites] Mitch.Br: [|Brooksie's Blog] =Mr Openshaw's Class= Alec: [|Alec's Blog] Patrick D: Patrick's Blog