Sunday, October 17, 2010

HOW TO.......

HOW TO....

BLOG
*HOW TO CREATE A BLOG: It is very easy. If you already have a gmail account, just by going to www.blogger.com you will be able to create one. If you don't have a gmail account, you can also open a blog by goint to the same direction and following the steps mentioned in the page.

*HOW TO INSERT TEXT: Once you have you blog, you can begin posting by clicking "NEW POST". You will be able to give your post title and write whatever you want in it. To publish it, you just have to click "PUBLISH POST"

*HOW TO INSERT IMAGES: While you are posting something, you may also want to include an image to emphasyze what you have written or simply to display graphically what you have written. To do this, you have to click on the icon at the top, in the text options, and then select the image from your computer or insert a web direction. Finally, you have to choose the layout, and you're ready to go!

*HOW TO INSERT AUDIO: You can either add your own music or podcast, or add one from the web. To add one from the web you must:
  1. Visit your Template | Page Elements tab.
  2. Create a new widget by clicking "Add a Page Element."
  3. Choose the "HTML/Javascript" widget.
  4. Enter the HTML code provided by your third-party music service into the content window and click "Save Changes."
WITH YOUR PODCASTS:
  • To podcast, choose a host to store your audio files, then enable 'Link Fields' in your Settings | Formatting tab.
  • Use the link field to enclose audio files in your posts.
*HOW TO INSERT VIDEO: You may also want to include video in your post. To do so, click on the video icon at the top right side of the text formatting bar. Next, browse your computer to find the video you want to upload. Select "upload video" and choose a name for it, and it's all set.

*HOW TO INSERT HYPERLINKS: This is a very useful tool, since many times you use a webpage as a reference, and you would like to mention it. To do so, select the text you want to hyperlink, click on the hyperlink button on the text formatting bar (it looks like a chain) and paste the web direction.

*HOW TO CHOOSE "THEMES": You may want to change your blog themes once in a while. To do so, click on the "layout" icon. Then choose the "pick new template" on the "change layout page".

*HOW TO CHANGE SETTINGS: This is probably the easiest thing to do, since there is a big tab at the top of the page saying "SETTINGS". Just click on it and change whatever you want.

HOW TO CHANGE LANGUAGE: To do this, scroll to the bottom of your blogger dashboard, where you will see the word "Language" has a link to it. Click on it and change your language!



Thursday, October 7, 2010

MY NY DERAM TRIP


After years waiting for this trip and hearing marvels from previous years' classes, we are finally going! Although dates are still not specified, what matters is that we are finally getting to go on the ASB icon trip! All of us have dream trips in mind, with thousands of things to do and visit in that modern and extremely cosmopolitan city that is New York. As for me, first of all, I would like to go to the well known, typical NY icons such as the Empire State Building, Times Square, the Statue of Liberty, Central Park, the lively Manhattan, and of course enjoy a musical at Broadway. However, there are also other things I would really enjoy doing, such as getting to see the filming of any TV show or movie, a baseball match, visiting the Guggenheim museum and Chinatown, and of course, I wouldn't leave New York without doing some shopping or walking through non- touristic streets.

In conclusion, I would like this year's NY trip to be unforgettable, and to have a great time with my class, because, we are now in our last years to finish school.