Task 2: Getting to know Blogger

Things you can do with Blogger:
-Customise your own design
-Publish your voice: uploading text, videos and pictures
-Simple-to-use interface: change fonts, adjust colour and alignment
-Saves automatically
-Spellcheck feature
-HTML editor: lets you customise your blog
-Free website
-Upload pictures and videos: you can order prints and organise photo's into albums
-Earn money: putting ad's onto your blog
-Develop your community: add a follow button
-Feedback from readers by leaving comments
-New post notifications: subscribe to blog feeds
-Simple ID: log into blogger with google accounts- gives you access to iGoogle , Google Mail etc.
-Language: 41 languages available
-Pages feature: make links
-Post on the go: blogger is available on phones
-Group blogging: create a team blog ( allowing multi bloggers to one blog )
-Third party applications: create your own app

'How I think Blogger will be useful for my coursework'

Blogger will be useful for my coursework because it hosts a multi media platform where pictures, text and videos can be uploaded. This will be very useful as it makes the tasks more interesting and shows I have a wider range of media knowledge. Blogger saves automatically which is very useful with doing course work because if students are in a rush or forget to save there work it will save automatically. Another useful point of blogger is that people can view your blog and leave comments so if the teacher wants to assess our work they can leave constructive feedback for us to work on. Blogging on the go could be handy if you don't have acess to a computer/laptop as it's easy to log in using your phone to do your work. Another great feature of blogger is spellcheck; this is useful because students do not want spelling errors in there coursework and spellcheck corrects there mistakes for them. Finally I believe that the way you can make links on blogger is an excellent feautre because if doing research students will be able to put a link up from the website they got there research from. Also if they make a refereance to a story or type of media on the internet; links can be useful to make points.

Do more...

From this video I have learnt how to embed powerpoint presentations onto my blog. Also I have learnt how to embed videos onto my blog:

I have also registered for Prezi and learnt the basics: