Students in TLC277 (University to Work) at Murdoch University are using Wordpress to record their thoughts on our Graduate Attributes and Professionalism. Students in Singapore will be commenting on them. This is an outline for those students, describing how to use our Murdoch Blogs installation: blogs.murdoch.edu.au

1. Using Murdoch Blogs TLC277 Kathryn Greenhill http://blogs.murdoch.edu.au/kathryngreenhill August 2008

2. About you

4. Preconceptions Blogs are Blather about ...

9. Blogs are also

21. 1. WHAT’S A BLOG ?

27. 1.2 ELEMENTS OF A TYPICAL BLOG

28. A blog is not a series of web pages

29. A blog is a database. Each post is a record.

35. ...so blogging takes ...

37. Murdoch Blogs Pilot project

38. http://blogs.murdoch.edu.au/yourblog

39. Software

41. Legal Terms and Conditions

42. Only post things you are have permission to.

43. Creative Commons

46. Customising your blog

47. You don’t *have* to change anything

48. Start here ...

54. Change the title and tagline

60. Themes

67. To activate a theme, just click on it.

70. Features of Themes

71. Customisable header images

75. Sidebar(s)

85. Widgets

91. Pages and posts

93. How to make a post

97. Title

99. Wordprocessor style buttons

103. Add a link

106. Format text from your clipboard

108. Use HTML

110. Other things you can do

111. Categories and Tags

113. Save

115. Preview

117. Publish

119. Change publish date

121. Add an image

124. Upload an image from your computer

127. Insert image from URL

131. Right click on the image

132. Firefox

134. Internet Explorer

139. Embed other media

140. eg.YouTube.com

142. Copy the embed code

144. Write a post and open the HTML tab

146. Paste in the embed code

148. Save and the post will look like this:

150. To write a Page

153. Manage and Comments