Tri-National Seminar

introducing

Blogging

Today’s Agenda

How we are going to Learn to Blog

Intro Setting UP Posting Images Following Feed Videos

Who are you?

Who am I?

Introductions

Introductions Who are you?

YOUR NAME

SUPER POWER?

Introductions Who am I?High School Sophomore

Writer

Reader

Artist

Comic/Anime Fan

Cosplayer

Tennis Player

Chef/Baker

Blogger

2+ years as a blogger

8 Currently semi/active Blogs1320 followers on most popular Blog43699 hits on most popular story

Your AccountThemesMobile

Setting Up your Blog

Want you to

Create a Tumblr AccountWith your my.wctc.edu email

Make sure your userid is appropriate

Setting Up Your Account

URL Possibilities• Short, meaningful quote• Description• Relating to blog topic

Icon• Picture of you• Picture of topic of blog

Setting Up Themes

• Your blog when directly viewed• Many different options!

• Officially suggested themes…

Or….. (as suggested here)

Setting Up Themes

• Custom themes!!!• See theme-hunter.tumblr.com for beautiful custom themes free

for public use

Setting Up Themes

Description of BlogTitle of Blog

Want you to

Select a Theme and implement it

Setting Up Mobile• Set up how your blog looks on the mobile app in settings

• Fonts• Color Schemes• Background

Setting Up Sidebar

Setting Up Activity

• The activity page shows what has been happening around your blog• Likes• Reblogs• New Follows• Asks Sent and Answered• Mentions in Posts

TypesLikes Reblogs

Posting

Posting Types

Posting Types

Posting Types

Posting Types

Posting Types

Posting Types

Posting Tags

Posting Mobile

Posting Likes

Posting Reblogs

• Main form of sharing works on Tumblr

Want you to

Write your first post concerning your Trip

ModifyingPosting

Images

Images Manipulate

• pixlr is a great site to crop, resize, save, and otherwise alter images for free!

Images Examples

Images Posting

Images Posting

• Images limited to 1280 by 1280 pixels in size• Automatically is shown in post as maximum 500 by 700

pixels

Following

Following Follows

• People who follow you see your posts on their dashboards• Likewise, you see the posts of those you follow on your dashboard

Feed

Feed

Class site http://trinationalseminar.com/

Want you to

Add a hash tag to your postThere will be a minimum of four posts: Preparation - #triprep Paris - #triparis Germany - #trigerm Back Home - #backhome

CreatingPosting

Videos

Videos Creating

• Animoto is a site where simple editing of text and photos can create clear and organized slideshows

https://animoto.com/play/0LzT7pd1nCx2H7q88SZxYg

Videos Creating

Videos Posting

Want you to

Create your video account and try a simple video

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