Planning the Future of NYC

Hi everyone - Post your comments on the common events by going to the “Discussion Posts” tab (top of screen), selecting the appropriate common event from the dropdown menu. Then click”edit this entry” at the bottom of the page.

You will come to the “back end” of the blog. You are registered as an editor so you can access this area and change content. Add your comments to the top of the editing box, title your entry with a “header 2″ font (you see a dropdown menu with paragraph, click there), and put your name in bold at the end.

Then click “save draft” and publish. If you forget the final steps…it won’t save your entry.

Alternatively, go into the dashboard and click on “pages”, “edit”, and select the common events page you would like to add to……

For your final project, you may need to embed a map - I suggest learning how to build and save your own google map. When finished, maps can be embedded into many domains including blogs, wikis, and powerpoint.

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I’ve set up a series of tabs to organize this blog - please post accordingly. Instructions about using the blog are found in posts categorized under “using the blog” - so check them out.

To embed video clips, copy the “embed code” from the original website (ex. youtube). In the blog dashboard, select “add new” post. Switch to the “HTML tab” and paste the video embed code into the window. Save draft and click publish.

If you want to check the video, font format, etc…, click “preview” before publishing.

The video should embed similarly to this:

Hi everyone - Post your comments on the film by going to the “Discussion Posts” tab (top of screen), selecting “Cities in Film” from the dropdown menu and clicking “edit this entry” at the bottom of the page.

You will come to the “back end” of the blog. You are registered as an editor so you can access this area and change content. Add your comments to the top of the editing box, title your entry with a “header 2″ font (you see a dropdown menu with paragraph, click there), and put your name in bold at the end.

Then click “save draft” and publish. If you forget the final steps…it won’t save your entry.