Monthly Archives: October 2008

How To Embed a Google Calendar In A Blog Page!

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Embedding a Google Calendar in your blog sidebar makes the calendar small and as Ms.Martino highlights it mightn’t suit your purpose. Another option is to embed a larger Google Calendar on a page on your blog.

Embedding A Google Calender in a Blog Page

If you would prefer to learn how to embed by watching a screencast – check out this How to embed a Google Calendar into an Edublogs blog screencast! (Thanks Nathan Toft for the link).

  1. Follow the instructions for embedding a Google Calendar in your blog sidebar up to Step 3
    • Scroll down to Embed this Calender and click on Customize the color, size, & other options.
  2. For a blog page – Change Default view to Month, change width to 450 pixels (you may need to adjust this width depending on your blog theme) and untick any calendars you don’t want displayed when the calendar is embedded in your blog sidebar. Now copy the embed code.Image of settings for a calendar on a page
  3. In your blog dashboard click on Write > Page.
  4. Add your title and any text you want to the page.
  5. Click on HTML tab and paste your embed code for your calendar then immediately click on Publish (don’t click on Visual Tab to change back to Visual Editor) Image of adding embed code to a page
  6. When you view your blog you should see your Google Calendar embedded in a page of your blog.

FINAL THOUGHTS

To learn how to use a Google Calendar refer to this post.

Here are some examples of Google Calendar for classes embedded in pages to see how they are being used:

  1. Nathan Toft‘s – Grade5nt Class Blog
  2. Ms. Martino’s Algebra Class Blog
  3. Claire Thompson‘s – Grade 9 Information

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How To Embed A Google Calendar In Your Blog Sidebar

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Our last post discussed the benefits of adding a Google Calendar to your class blog to display important dates and showed you how to use Google Calendar. Rob Berry asked how to add to blogs so this post will show you how to embed a Google Calendar into your blog sidebar and the next post will explain how to embed on a page.

Embedding Google Calendar In Your Blog Sidebar

  1. Sign into your Google Calendar and click on Settings.
  2. Click on the name of the Calendar you want to embed into your blog sidebar.Image of Editing Setting
  3. Scroll down to Embed this Calender and click on Customize the color, size, & other optionsImage of customising calendar
  4. Change Default view to agenda, change width to 230 pixels (you may need to adjust this width depending on your blog sidebar) and untick any calendars you don’t want displayed when the calendar is embedded in your blog sidebar. Now copy the embed code.Image of changing embed code
  5. In your blog dashboard click on Design > Widgets and add a new text widget to your Current Widgets by clicking on Add next to Text widget in the Available Widget area. Image of adding a text widget
  6. Click on Edit on the Text widget you just added to the Current Widget area. Now paste the HTML code for the calendar into the Text Widget and click on Change. Finally click on Save Changes.Image of Embedding
  7. When you view your blog you should see your Google Calendar embedded in your blog sidebar.

FINAL THOUGHTS

Here are some class blogs with Google Calendar embedded in their sidebar to see how they are being used:

  1. Ken Pendergrass‘s Eckstein Middle School Choir blog
  2. Bryan McDonald’s Mr Mac’s Class Blog

Remember here is how to use Google Calendar and this post explains how to embed on a page.

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Are You Making Your Life Easier With Google Calendar?

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Do you use Google Calendar? Have you thought of adding a Google Calendar widget to your class blog to display important dates (thanks Kimberly McCollum and Bryan McDonald for recommending it as a ‘must have widget”).

About Google Calendar

Google Calendar is a free web-based calendar which you can use for keeping track of important events in one place from any computer anywhere. You create several calendars for different uses in the same Google Calendar and for each calendar you can choose to:

  • keep private
  • share with friends via email
  • make public so others can subscribe.

For example you could create a personal calendar which you keep private (not viewable by others) and a PD calendar that you share with others.

You can also sync between other calendars (e.g. Outlook, iCal, your iPhone) and Google Calendar plus add it to your iGoogle personalized start page and/or embed it in blogs and web pages.

Image of subscribingIt’s also excellent for coordinating online meet up for global projects because it automatically converts the time to your time zone when you subscribe to the calendar. Check out how Google Calender converts the times by subscribing to Classroom 2.0 live meetups calendar.

Image of Google Calendar

Setting Up Your Google CalendarImage of finding the calendar

  1. Create an Gmail account. Gmail is Google’s free web mail that you can access from any computer, anywhere. Ideally use a login name that people can identify easily as being you e.g. mine is my name with the s missing from the end of waters.
  2. Go to Google and select Calendar under the More option.
  3. Sign into Google Calendar using your Gmail account and if asked choose the time zone for your current location.
  4. Create events on your calender by clicking on Create Event or on a time slot.Image of Parts of calendar
  5. Complete all the required information and press Save.  Image of Calendar events
  6. Click on Settings to:
    • Adjust how the calendar is displayed
    • Share calendars with others
    • Make calendars public
    • Set up automatic notifications
    • Delete a calendar
  7. I use my Google Calender to manage my workload so have set up my calendars so that I get email notifications to my gmail account one day prior to the event.

FINAL THOUGHTS

Want to embed your Google Calendar in your blog?  Check out:

Meanwhile if you haven’t set up a iGoogle personalized start page — why not set up iGoogle while you are trying Google Calendar? Here is how to set up iGoogle.

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What Has The Student Blogging Competition Meant To YOU?

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Image of where are you at?We’re heading into week 5 of the Student Blogging Competition organized by Miss Wyatt! And lots of people, including myself, who would love to read what you’ve gained from the Competition.

Would love feedback from all students, teachers and people like me who have supported by visiting student posts to leave comments.

Please share your thoughts on the Student Blogging Competition by leaving a comment on this post. Here are some questions you might like to answer in your comment:

  1. What are the best parts of blogging so far?
  2. Do you find blogging interesting and why?
  3. What are the 3 aspects of the Competition you’ve liked the best?

And yes students, if you leave a comment, I promise to drop past your blog, check out your progress and comment back on your posts :lol:

You can check out the posts from the Student Blogging Competition at this URL or you can subscribe to the feed.

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Scheduling A Post For A Later Date

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Image of scheduling a postEver written something but wanted it to appear as a post on your blog later?

The good news is you can schedule posts to be published when you want whether it be a specific time, few days or weeks.

It’s really simple to do — only takes 3 simple steps!

Once you have written your post just:

  1. Click on Edit link next to Publish Immediately in the ‘Publish Status’ box
  2. Enter the date and time you want the post to publish
  3. Click Publish

Your post will now be held until the time and date you specified. You also use this method to change the timestamp on published posts.

FINAL THOUGHTS

This post was inspired by Marie’s question “Is there a way to postpone the posting of a post if you want it posted on a particular date?” Great question and something that many people didn’t realize.

Please leave a comment if you have questions or how-to’s that you would like explained.

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