Friday 3 April 2009

Travel blogs

If you need some ideas for your travel blog, have a look at some of the best travel blogs around:
http://lplabs.com/2009/03/27/the-2009-lonely-planet-travel-blog-awards-winners/

How to make a blog

Here's how to make a blog:

Creating a blog is really, really easy.You can either go to blogger.com and just follow the instructions there, or if you want, you can first watch this little video on youtube (it's only 2 minutes long) which gives extra assistance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bU4gXHkejMoAs you can see, creating a blog takes only a minute on blogger.com, and can easily post (i.e. write) stuff on your blog. Here's another video about how to do this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdqXLzvg-kM).Once your blog is ready, you can send me your blog address (mine is http://susainlondon.blogspot.com/). You can also put links to all your classmates' blogs on your blog. Here's a video about how to do that: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kY5cMEOl9Js.VERY IMPORTANT: Please make sure you turn off the automatic word-verification tool for comments on your blog. You can find out how to do this here. Otherwise, anytime you or someone else wants to leave a comment on a blog, you'd have to type in a long list of letters and numbers which can be very frustrating!Hope this helps to get you blogging!