Tips, tricks, ideas and help with using web 2.0 technologies and edublogs
I’m frequently asked how to add images to blog sidebars — so I thought it would help to share my quick and easy cheats method.
So what do you need to know to do this?
To start with you need to understand that you need to:
Write HTML code which links to the location of your image
Add [...]
Email subscription is a ‘must have’ widget on blogs.
Why? Because visiting blog to check for new content is time consuming.
Most people read the latest posts from their favorite blogs by subscribing using RSS or email subscription.
Email is extremely important for:
Readers who prefer to receive latest posts using email subscription
Private blogs — these don’t [...]
The 2009 Student Blogging Challenge is now nearly half way through and the students have been working REALLY hard on the weekly challenges! Currently 52 class blogs and 150 individual students blogs from 13 different countries are participating.
To celebrate the success of the challenge while also creating an opportunity to collect examples of student work [...]
ClustrMaps is a popular widget for class and student blogs because it reminds students that they are part of a global audience and demonstrates how connected we all are.
Students love seeing the red dots grow as their readers, from around the World, visit their blog.
Please Note:
Edublogs supporters and Edublogs Campus can use the ClustrMaps [...]
Have you speculated if it is possible to embed a Flickr Slideshow in a sidebar rather than in a post? Well Betsy asked because she wants to add one to her Merit School of Music blog.
Your options
The size of most embed code can be adjusted by pasting it into a simple text editor like Notepad [...]
Those that follow me on twitter will know that I’ve haven’t been well this week so James has been nice enough to help out by writing this post so all I have to do is add screenshots and extra tips.
It’s Christmas at Edublogs and, in the spirit of the season, Edublogs Supporters will find themselves [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
As Britt Watwood said:
ClustrMaps is a “must-have” widget for class and student blogs because it reminds students that they are part of a global voice and demonstrates how interconnected we all are.
So here’s how to set up a ClustrMaps on your blog using the ClustrMaps Widget.
The ClustrMaps widget is available to Edublogs supporters and Edublogs [...]
Deciding which widgets to add to your blog sidebar is hard! There is just TOO much choice…
So when Chrissy asked for advice on any “must-haves” widgets to include on her students new Room202’s class blog I thought this is an excellent opportunity for us to share ideas to help make the task of choosing widgets [...]
