Comments on: Share Your Advice on “Must-Have” Widgets for Class and Student Blogs

By: Kate

Kate — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 06:19:54 +0000

I am new to class blogs and am really enjoying all of the amazing possibilities out there! I do have to say that I am so very thankful that everyone is sharing all of their great ideas, i tend to spend hours reading through all of this without even noticing!

I went to the shelfari site and LOVE the idea of it, although I have a globalstudent blog and it said that it doesn’t recognise this?? Is there something I can do to still get it onto my blog??

By: Sue Waters

Sue Waters — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 03:31:42 +0000

Unfortunately unless you are an Edublogs supporter you don’t have access to the plugin tab which is where you need to activate the Widget Pack. However there are work arounds depending on which widget you want access to.

By: eduspacelounge

eduspacelounge — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 03:23:12 +0000

Hi Sue

I tried following the instructions you gave to @tdeponte regarding activating the Widget Pack from Dashboard. Unfortunately, I can’t find it .. can you please post an image of the area that you are referring to?

By: shutterbuga

shutterbuga — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 00:35:27 +0000

I want to upload mixpod ,but I can’t seem to find out how.
Can you help me?

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By: Sue Waters

Sue Waters — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 12:57:37 +0000

@Idelia Your Shelfari widget looks really cool and such a great idea especially for library blogs. My favorite ways of relaxing are going to a movie or reading a good book — into thrillers and mysteries.

@Arandaa I’m sorry you are finding it hard. Can we do anything to help?

@Rob Berry It is on my list to provide a how-to-guide for embedding the calendar. I will try to write it this week.

@Mrs C Your ClustrMap is looking really good. I love how ClustrMaps inspire students to blog due to the global connection. Sorry about the Virtual Pet not working on Learnerblogs. I like Answer.com — I had never tried it but it is a good idea. Wonder if I have room on the sidebar of The Edublogger to add it?

@Ryan7e09 I agree the ClustrMaps are really good. Hope you are getting lots of dots from around the World.

By: ryan7e09

ryan7e09 — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 21:37:27 +0000

Clustr maps is my favorate widget

By: Mrs C

Mrs C — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 06:48:12 +0000

Our ClustrMap is our favorite widget, and our hit counter. So much so that all of my grade installed them on their own blogs as well.
Recently I added cyberpets to the class blog – not sure of the educational value (except in getting code and installing it, I guess) but the kids sure are enthusiastic about these. One problem – they don’t work on Learnerblogs, so the kids are installing them on their wiki pages instead.
I also added the Answers.com button to our blog – I had to demonstrate it to the grade but some of the kids who find reading a challenge are really making good use of it. It doesn’t take much space so I think I’ll keep that one.

By: Rob Berry

Rob Berry — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 07:56:07 +0000

Hi I really like the idea of embedding the Google calendar onto our blogs as a reminder tool for students and staff.
Can anyone provide some steps – how to add to our blog?