Tim Childers’ Blog

I’ve been asking myself for quite some time, “Tim, why do you do two blogs on the Discovery site?” After all, I do the TN Leadership Council blog. Couldn’t I just say what I wanted to say in that one post?

Well….no.

Today I found the purpose of my personal blog here on the Discovery Educator site. I’m going to use it to offer bits and pieces of simple technology training. So, if you are already an expert in all things tech, this blog may not be useful to you. But, if you are still feeling your way around this whole Internet-Web-2.0-Blog-Wiki-YouTube-Flickr-Del.icio.us thing, then may this blog’s for you.

But, how do you get back here every day to get that information? Today, I’ll give you the easiest answer. Later, we’ll go over a better answer.

See the URL at the top of this blog? It says:

http://blog.discoveryeducation.com/lisashusband/2007/11/01/
this-blogs-for-you/

Man! That’s a lot of letters and stuff to remember. And we don’t want to just mark this post, we want to save this blog. (More on that later). Follow these simple steps and you can get back to this blog anytime you want. (These instructions are for PC users, by the way). You might want to write them down, because at some point this post may disappear!

1. Go up to that URL and shorten it to this: http://blog.discoveryeducation.com/lisashusband/

2. Click enter

3. When the new page comes up, right click it with your mouse and click “Create Shortcut” in the box that pops up. This will put an icon on your desktop. Anytime you click it, this blog will open and you will see the latest posts.

Now, I said that was the easiest, but it is not the best way to save this blog. More on that in another post.