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This might be very challenging for some of you. Do you best, and ask me questions whenever you are confused. If possible send me a screenshot of what you're looking at so I can better help you.

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Logging in: To login to your Edublog, go to http://edublogs.org/ and enter you username and password.
Once you're logged in, you should see, something that looks like this. Click My Dashboard to got to your 'Blog Management' page. Click on 'Write a post' to write something on your blog.
If you want to see what you site looks like to everyone else, click 'View Site'. If you want to go back to your 'Site Admin', click Site Admin.
To Write a post, click Write Post. To save it without making it public, click 'save'. To make your post public, click 'publish'.

If you don't want to make all of your posts public, please add Jeff as an Adminsitrator to your blog, so I can see what you are doing. You can also add your classmates if you wish. To do so, click Users / Authors & Users.

Then enter an email address (mine is jefflebow@gmail.com) and select 'Adminstrator' as role.

To add categories for your posts, click mange/categories.

To add a new category, click 'add new'.

You can then select one or more categories for each post.

On the front page, you will then see a list of categories and how many posts are in each category.

What's the difference between a 'post' and 'page'?

To change the look of your website, click Presentation.

Tasks:

Change the Theme of you Edublog by going to "Presentations' and choosing a theme you like.
Create a page called 'About Me' and copy your introduction from EFL537.Intro Forum there.
Create two categories - 'EFL537' and 'TEFL Program".
Copy the text from your Day1 Reflection and use it to write a post. Put that in the 'EFL537 category.
Write another post and answer this question - "What was your favorite part of Prof. Gary Carkin's course?" Put that in the TEFL category.
(Remember, if you don't want to make your pages public, 'save' your pages and posts, don't 'publish' them. If you don't publish them, please add jefflebow@gmaill.com as an Adminstrator user.