5. How to get the students started

The important thing to remember about using blogs is that even though all of your students may have e-mail accounts, that, and limited word processing skills, may be all the technical skills they have. Your instructions have to build on those skills. The students need to know the terminology of the particular blog you are using; “saving” a post is different than “publishing” a post. Make sure that you test your instructions on different computers (especially your school’s library computers). Make sure the buttons look the same in different web browsers