What you'll need to do to get started is to visit the blogger.com website and create your own blog space. In order to have a blog space, you'll need to establish a Google account. (Blogger.com is a Google enterprise.)
At some point, when setting up the blog, you'll be asked to establish a URL identity. Pay attention to that, because other classmates will need that to link to your blog. Once you have your URL, put it up on the whiteboard along with your name, so we can link to your page.
The most important thing to do today is to learn how to include links - these links will be the URLs of the blogs of class members. Insert links for all of us on your page - there should be 16 (not you). Here's how to make a link list: Under the "template" tab option (top) for your blog, select the "page elements" tab, then "add a page element". Choose "link list", but before you do, check out all the other options for your page. The "list" option is nice for gathering research ideas. You may also want to use "link list" again when collecting URL's from your research.
After making your link list, save your blog, then try the links out in the "view" mode to make sure all the links work.
Now that you're all set up, you can customize the space in a lot of ways. Manuever around and explore how to reformat your space, re-colorize, etc. if you're into that sort of thing. Otherwise, the templates are pretty nice to use on their own. If you'd like to visit another classmate's blog, leave a constructive, complimentary comment for them about how their page looks. This is a first step in community exchange.
The goal is to have your blog space created and all class members linked by Wednesday's class, Nov 28.
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We could produce more sparks than magnesium as it combusts in a controlled environment.
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