Getting Started With Blogger

Starting your blog: 

1. Log in to www.blogger.com with your Missouri Western email.  

2. Click “New Blog” on the left hand side of the screen.  You may name your blog however you like.  

3. After creating your first blog entry (see below), send me an email with the subject line “’YOUR NAME’ BLOG”.  (For example, I would type “MCCUNE BLOG”) In the body of the email give me the URL for your blog. (For example, my blog is at www.math110mccunesp16.blogspot.com.)

Privacy Settings: 

You may decide whether you want your blog to be private or public.  The blog will default to public.  You can change the privacy settings by clicking on the settings icon to the left of the screen when you are in your blog.  Under “Basic”, choose click the “Edit” button next to Privacy to remove your blog from Blogger listings and to make it invisible to search engines.   You can scroll down to “Permissions” to limit your blog readers.  If you don’t want your blog to remain public, you must add me (lmccune@missouriwestern.edu) as a reader.  To do this, click on “Edit” next to “Blog Reader” and choose the option “Private – Only these readers”.  You may add my email to the list of readers.  You may also choose to limit your readers to only your classmates. 

Following Blogs: 

Go to www.blogger.com/home.  Scroll down to “Reading List” and click “add” on the left-hand side of the screen.  You should add my blog for this class: www.math110mccunesp16.blogspot.com.

Your first Blog entry: (Due Tuesday, January 26)

After creating your blog, you can create a new post in one of two ways: 

1.     From www.blogger.com/home, click on the orange button with the pencil to write a new post for your blog. 

2.     From your blog overview, click on the orange button labeled “New post” to create a new post. 

In your first blog post, tell me a little about yourself.  You should answer the following questions:  What was the last math class you had?  Why are you taking MAT110?  Our semester will be broken up into three topics: Graph Theory, Financial Mathematics, and Probability and Statistics.  What do you think each of these topics is about? What do you hope to learn in each of these topics? 

You will occasionally be asked to write more detailed blog posts.  Such posts may include solving a problem, researching a topic discussed in class more in depth and reporting on your findings, or responding to an article related to the mathematics discussed in class.  For these posts, you will be provided a prompt at www.math110mccunesp16.blogspot.com.

You are encouraged to read one another’s blogs and leave your comments.  Please remember to be respectful in your posts and comments.  You should follow the guidelines set out in the MWSU Student Code of Conduct available at https://www.missouriwestern.edu/studentaffairs/student-code-of-conduct/.