Welcome to Blogging Earthwatch!

Welcome to Blogging Earthwatch and congratulations on your selection to teach Live From the Field. This is the first step in creating your Earthwatch Blog. We, and our grant partners, take pride in being able to provide this opportunity to take teachers and their students into the field.

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Your Earthwatch blog has been created using Blogger.com. An invitation to join the blog as a Contributor has been sent to you via email.

If you have any questions, please email us.

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Guidelines for your blog:

• The template used to create your blog must remain the same. Do not make changes to the html code.
• The title banner and grantor logos must remain the same and in the same location
• Any links to Earthwatch pages or grantor pages must remain the same
• We encourage you to modify your bio and picture (in your Blogger account) to something which will engage your students. Have fun!
• Post and add photos as you choose
• You may share your blog URL with family, friends, coworkers, and students
• Questionable content - when in doubt about what content should or should not be added, ask yourself "Would my school allow me to post this on their site?". If the answer is "No", then don't post it on your Earthwatch blog.

Please feel free to contact us with any questions you might have.

Happy Blogging!

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Personalize Your Blog

Sign on to your Blogger.com account and create your Profile. Don't forget to include a picture.

Your Blog:
In the Blogger Dashboard, locate your LFF blog and click on

Posting:

Add a new "test" post. Use the tools Blogger offers to change the font, colors, and size. Add a picture or a link to another website. Once published, you can always go back and edit the posts.

Settings:

• Basic tab
  Title - this will appear in the top bar of the browser window
  Description - one or two sentences describing your trip.
  Leave all other fields alone.
• Publishing tab
  These fields will be configured for you and should not be changed.
• Formatting tab
  All fields can be updated to fit your location and preference.
• Comments/Archiving/Site Feed/Email/Permissions tabs
  These fields will be configured for you and should not be changed.

Template

Please do not make any changes to the fields in this tab.