More Blogging Baby Steps

Greetings from Spring Break! While I love my job, a break is always so refreshing. 

I've been away from the blogging world for a little while. I recently had a few reminders to make sure to balance,prioritize, simplify, appreciate, and enjoy life... Because it is truly short. 

I have been planning on sharing some more blogging tips that have helped me get started. I found a wonderful blog with some great tutorials. Something Swanky is a great blog that seamlessly combings desserts and blog design. It helped me design my own header,  background, blog dividers, and sidebar gadget titles. A cute, custom looking blog design isn't as hard as it looks. All you need is some time, a vision, and the help of those who came before (in the blogging world). Click on the Something Swanky picture to link to the blog. The DIY Design page is under construction, but if you hover over the tab, it will link you to the various tutorials--- or click on the images below to learn to set up your own custom blog features.

What I truly love about blogging is learning from other people. As teachers, we are life-long learners.

Go, live, and be inspired.

Blogging Baby Steps

I've been looking at several blogs for inspiration as I've contemplated starting this blog.

The goal of this blog is to share ideas, inspiration, thoughts, creativity and the joy of teaching.

This week I learned how to set up this blog with the help of the wonderful world wide web.

Today I joined my first Linky Party (after truly researching what that meant) featuring New Teacher Blogs. Thank you Teaching Blog Addict.

Here are a few other blogs that helped me get started on "Blogging Basics," or the Baby Steps as I'd like to call them. Ladybug's Teacher Files had a great video  tutorial on linking documents right off your blog. It was a wonderful tutorial that allowed me to follow step by step while actually configuring my own settings. 

Teaching My Calling helped me figure out how to link this blog to my new Facebook page and connect my new posts to a  timeline feed. 

Fabulous Blogging, Microsoft Publisher, and Photobucket helped me create my "Grab My Button" badge so others can grab it for their own blogs.  Thanks to all of the blogs and websites that made this first week possible.  Slowly, but surely, I'm figuring this blogging world out. My dog Bentley has even become my "Blogging Buddy".

I look forward to the upcoming weeks and the adventures in blogging.