 The purpose of this demonstration is to show you how to create an entry that can be posted on the course blog for Geography 30 called Our Perspectives. You'll be using this blog frequently to complete your learning activities. On the horse homepage here I'm going to click on the link that will open us directly to the course blog right here on the left hand side, Our Perspectives. It opens up in a new window and so here I am on the front page of the of the course blog. I'm going to scroll down on that page on the right hand side down here there's a link called Add an Entry. You just need to click on this it'll open up a brand new entry for your post that you'll need to put up on the blog for learning activity. First thing you need to do is add a title and when you put in a title I always need to put in the module number that you're working on. This helps in grading so we want to make sure we get that in there and then I'll add I typed it in there already so the rest of the title is indicative of something that I want to put in there. I'll add my narrative and you've got the rest of the space here and you can use the different formatting buttons to help you express what you want to do in your blog post there but sometimes it might be important for you to add a diagram or some kind of a concept map or something that you've prepared using Google Docs or another application saved to your desktop. What you need to do to insert that would be to click on the insert image button. I'll do that here. Click on the insert image. This opens up a little dialog box to allow you to go out and upload that new image so it'll go out and find it. I want to browse and here it is my diagram. I'm going to click and open that one and add that one to upload that one up into the blog space. You'll notice that very important here that I've added a unique identifier to my file name. If I have the same file name as someone else it will overwrite that file name so I don't want to get involved with that so I'm going to put my user ID which I know is unique to me as part of the file name and that will get around that so add that to your any of the files before you upload them and you'll avoid any of those kinds of problems. Now the blog is only 500 pixels wide. I know my diagram is much wider than that so what I want to do here is I want to definitely display this image in my entry so I'll keep that one checked but I only want to use the 500 pixels so I'm going to leave that as it is. I'm not going to use the pop-up version I'm not worried about that so I'm going to uncheck that one so this is really important to have this 500 show up especially when your image is larger than the 500 pixels wide. So I've uploaded this I've checked the displayed in my image in my entry and I've got it 500 pixels wide I'll click the finish button and that will insert the image directly into the post and I can continue typing afterwards or however I want to around that image until my post is complete the way I want it to. Before I hit the save button though it's absolutely important that you check the category for the module you're working on. This is module two so I'm going to check the module two category and make sure that is checked so that it'd be very easy to miss this in terms of grading if this is not checked. Later on in the semester if I'm going to scroll down let me go over here to the right a second and scroll down you'll notice there are team categories as well you might be asked to check one of these depending on what team you're in and that will also help your teammates find the tag the posts that you've put on that'll come in later in the semester. Once I've got that I've got my title I've got my posts the way I want it to I've checked the categories appropriate for this I'll clump down and I'll click on the save button and that will publish it to the course blog. Let's check up the top here it says view my entry let's go ahead and do that and sure enough it's got my posts up on the blog here for others to read and comment on as required by the course.