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Content in Edublogs can take many different forms—posts, pages, uploaded media, and embedded media. The first step needs to be developing an understanding of what each of these types of content are, and how they fit into the Edublogs framework.
Posts and pages are very similar. When you click on the Pages link on the left navigation column, if you are just beginning, you will see an empty list or the Sample Page that Edublogs provides. However, this page will show a list of all of the pages that you have written, as shown in the following screenshot:
Everything above about Pages also applies to Posts. Posts, though, have several additional options. It’s also more common to use the additional options to customize Posts than Pages.
Right away, hovering over Posts, it shows two new links: Categories and Tags. These tools are optional, and serve the dual purpose of aiding the author by providing an organizational structure, and helping the reader to find posts more effectively. A Category is usually very general; on one of my educational blogs, I limit my categories to a few: technology integration, assessment, pedagogy, and lessons. If I happen to write a post that does not fit, I do not categorize it. Tags are becoming ubiquitous in many applications and operating systems.
They provide an easy way to browse a store of information thematically. On my educational blog, I have over 160 tags. On one post about Facebook’s new advertising system, I added the following tags: Digital Literacy, Facebook, Privacy. Utilizing tags can help you to see trends in your writing and makes it much easier for new readers to find posts that interest them, and regular readers to find old posts that they want to re-reference.
Let’s take a look at some of the advanced features. When adding or editing a post, the following features are all located on the right-hand side column:
All of these features are optional, but they are useful for improving the experience, both for yourself and your readers.
While for most people, the heart of a blog is the actual writing that they do. Media serves help to both make the experience more memorable and engaging, as well as to illustrate a point more effectively than text would alone. Media is anything other than text that a user can interact with; primarily, it is video, audio, or pictures. As teachers know, not everyone learns ideally through a text-based medium; media is an important part of engaging readers just as it is an important part of engaging students.
There are a few ways to get media into your posts. The first is through the Media Library. On a free account, space is limited to 32 MB, a relatively small account. Pro accounts get 10 GB of space.
Click on Media from the navigation menu on the left; it brings up the library. This will have a list of your media, similar to that which is used for Posts and Pages. To add media, simply click on Add New and choose an image, audio file, or video from your computer. This will then be available to any post or page to use. The following screenshot shows the Media Library page:
If you are already in a post, you have even more options. Click on the Add Media button above the text editor, as shown in the following screenshot:
Following are some of the options you have to embed media:
Utilizing media effectively can dramatically improve the experience for your readers.
This article on managing content provided details about managing different types of content, in the form of posts, pages, uploaded media, and embedded media. It taught us the different features such as publish, format, categories, tags and features image.
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