Discourse Analysis ENG 112: Posting Instructions

Final Exam Blog Posting Instructions

To Post Your Blog Post:

Sign into My Nova
Click on the Gmail Link to access your VCCS Email
Open a new Internet Browser Tab
Type the following into the address bar: www.blogger.com
Under “Your Blogs” you should see our course blog – Discourse Analysis ENG 112
Click on the Orange Button with the Pencil Icon to open a blank page
Type your post title into the Title Bar
Copy and Paste your Blog Post into the Text Box
Make any necessary formatting changes (see Post Requirements relating to format)
Add Labels: Look to the right of the text box under “Post Settings” and click on the “Labels” Button
Type your post labels into the label box and separate them with commas
Click “Done” when you are finished labeling
After you have reviewed your entire post, click the orange button in the upper right-hand corner titled “Publish”
To View your Post on the Blog, click the button at the top of the page titled “View Blog” (you can also view our blog at: www.discourse112.blogspot.com)

To Insert Hyperlinks:

NOTE: Do this before you publish your post to the course blog
Using your cursor, highlight the text in your post which you want to link to an outside source
Click on the “Link” button in the toolbar; a little window will pop up saying “Edit Link”
Copy and paste or type in the web address of the outside source into the “web address” box
Check the box that says “Open this link in new window”
Click “OK”

(To Delete the hyperlink: click on the hyperlinked text and select “remove”)

To Insert Images:

NOTE: Do this before you publish your post on the course blog
Look at the tool bar and find the “picture” icon (hovering over it with your mouse it will read “insert image”) – Click on this button
Note: You can only add pictures which you have downloaded to a file on your computer
Within the “insert image” window select “Choose Files” under the “Upload” tab
Select the image file on your computer and click “Open”
Once the image is loaded into the window, click on it so it has a blue border around it
Then click the blue button at the bottom of the window titled “Add Selected”
The image should now appear inside your blog post
To shrink or expand the picture, click on it with your mouse – a box will appear with options for its size and to add a caption. You can also move it around the post by dragging it.

Note: Because our blog is behind the school firewall, you will NOT be able to upload images from websites – only from image files on your computer)

To Insert Youtube Videos:

Note: Because our blog is behind the school firewall, you will NOT be able to upload videos from youtube or any other webpage using the “insert video” function. Instead you will have to embed the video code into the post’s html page. Instructions for doing this are below.
NOTE: Do this before you publish your post on the course blog
Your post’s text box is automatically in “Compose” mode (see the buttons on the left-hand side of the page) Click instead on the “HTML” Box to switch views.

You will see code that looks like this:

</div>

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Go to where you found your video on youtube
Scroll to the tool bar under the video and click the “Share” icon
You are given three options: share, embed, and email – click on the “Embed” tab
Copy the whole line of video code
Go back to your draft blog post in HTML view
Paste the video embed code into the code that is already there. It should now look like this (the video embed code is bolded here to show you where to put it – do not bold it on the blog):

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CieuGZ7TthE" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

</div>

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Now click “Save” and switch back to “Compose” mode using the “Compose” Button – you should see your embedded video there on the draft post

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