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Adding A Voki Speaking Avatar To A Post or Page of Your Blog

Our last post showed how to add a Voki speaking avatar to your blog sidebar using a Text box widget. Why? Because voki avatars are cool and lots of fun to create.
Adding a Voki to your blog sidebar gives a “human element” to the site — your readers can now hear your voice. [...]

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Adding A Voki Speaking Avatar To Your Blog Sidebar

Voki speaking avatars are cool and lots of fun to create; educators use them to add a human element to their sites or to engage students. But they can be a bit pesky to embed in a blog so this post will explain how to add a voki to your blog sidebar and the [...]

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Conversations, Community and Open PD

Once weekly I attend Open PD facilitated by Robin Ellis, Darren Draper and Kelly Dumont.
Today’s session — an introduction to blogging — I was invited to share tips on blogging which I decided to expand on a couple of tips by following up with this post.
About Open PD
Open PD is an open staff development course [...]

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Meet the miniLegends — Check Out How They Customise Their Own Blogs

Al Upton, an educator based in South Australia, is extremely fortunate to work with the talented miniLegends, a class of Year 3 students, aged 8 and 9. Last year I was incredibly fortunate to be able to work closely with the miniLegends during the 31 Days to Build A Better Blog — which involved [...]

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Tips On Blogging With Students

We’ve set up a Getting Started With Edublogs page on this blog to provide a central location for “how to” resources. Please let us know if you have any resources to add to this page.
Meantime we receive many requests for tips on blogging with students so here is some advice from educators who are experienced [...]

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Changing Your Display Name and Setting up your Comment Avatar

When I started out creating accounts online my username was dswaters which seemed like a good idea at the time but now I prefer being known by my name Sue Waters. Fortunately I have the option on my blog to change the name that is displayed when I post articles and write comments.
Importance of [...]

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How To Add an Email Subscription to Your Blog

In our last post we showed how to add a RSS feed from Feedburner to your blog to make it easier for your readers to subscribe to your blog and so that you could analyse your blog subscriptions e.g. number of subscribers, Feed Readers they use. This post will show how you can add an [...]

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Adding a RSS Feed From Feedburner To Your Blog

Most readers receive posts from their favorite blogs by subscribing to RSS using their feed readers (e.g. Google Reader, Bloglines, NetVibes).
RSS notifies your reader of new content; saving them time because it means they can read their latest news in one location, their feed reader, rather than having visiting each web site separately (if you [...]

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