How To Add or Change an Announcement

This site is monitored and maintained by teachers.  If you're a student or parent or community member, and you want to add information to the site, please contact a teacher.

If you're a teacher and you want to add information to your own posts, please see Ms. Snyder to get added to the list of administrators.

1.  In the top right hand corner, it says "sign in".  Click on that, then put in your e-mail address and password.

2.  Go to View Blog
3.  Scroll down the list of posts to the one you're interested in altering.  Click it.
4.  At the bottom of the box around the information, there's a little pencil icon.  Click it.

OR you can go to Edit Posts, scroll down the list of posts and click Edit on the one you want.

HINT - It's easier to add and change stuff in Compose mode (at the top of the box), BUT if you're cutting from elsewhere and pasting into the post box, use Edit HTML mode or else it'll all get messed up.  Then switch to Compose mode to make sure it looks the way you want it to.

To change the text:  just type.  

To change the picture:  First open another internet page and google images to find a picture you want.  Right click on the picture and hit "save as".  Remember what it saves as!  OR use your own photo from your hard drive or memory stick.  Then come back here and click on the little picture icon to the right of "Link".  Hit "browse" then find your saved photo name and click on it.  Click on "OK".  Once it's in the box here, you can right click on the photo to move it left, right, or center and to change the size.  I typically go with Left and Small.

To add a link to another site on-line:   Open another internet page and go to the site (if you don't have the URL handy).  Copy the URL at the very top of the page.  Come back here to your post box.  Type the words that you want the link to show up on.  Highlight them by running your mouse over them while holding down the left click button.  Click on "Link" at the top of the box, and paste in the link where it says "Web address".  Click on "OK". 

To add a post:  If you don't have a post already for your team or club or whatever, look at the top right hand corner of the page, and click on "new post".  Add a title and information.

HINT on LABELS - The Label (at the bottom of the box) is what makes the post show up at the side.  If you're adding a club, use the label for your club (whatever you call it), but also add CLUB as a label (separated with a comma and space) so it's added to the list of clubs at KCI.  Same goes for sports, arts and entertainment, etc.  You can click on "show all" to see all the choices of labels so far to make sure you're not duplicating something that's there already but under a slightly different name and to  make sure you added your post everywhere it belongs.

To get your post on the home page:  If you have some good news, and you want it to show up on the home page, add a post, and use the labels:  Applause Applause, and Home, as well as whatever sport or club it's about.  After a few day, go in to edit it and delete the Home label because we'll get tired of looking at it. It'll stay in the other places though.  So at the end of the year, if someone clicks on Applause Applause - which is first on purpose, they'll get all the amazing stuff we did all year!  Cool, eh?

5.  Click on "Publish Post".