As James says “odds are you’ve noticed that Edublogs has just undergone a pretty radical upgrade – and that your admin area is looking a heap of a lot different!”
And I thought you might like a quick overview of the main changes since I’ve been working hard to get the new Help & Support [...]
A Quick Tour of Your New Edublogs Features!
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Share Your Advice on “Must-Have” Widgets for Class and Student Blogs
September 10th 2008 by Sue Waters in Building Global Connections, Setting Up & Using Widgets, Using Blogs With Students - 28 Comments
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 [...]
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Edublogs Gives Us New Freedom; Most ‘Embedding’ Code Can Now Be Pasted Directly into Our Blogs
It’s official! Edublogs has decided to allow javascript, iframes and object code.
So what does this mean? Besides the fact that I now have to make changes to several previous Edublogger posts, our life has just become considerably easier because we can just copy and paste pretty much most ‘embedding’ code we pick up [...]
Adding A Voki Speaking Avatar To Your Blog Sidebar
February 24th 2008 by Sue Waters in Setting Up & Using Widgets, Tips For Better Blogging, Using Blogs With Students, Working With Web 2.0 Tools - 73 Comments
Voki speaking avatars are cool and lots of fun to create.
They’re used to add a human element to their blogs or engage students.
But they can be a bit pesky to embed in a blog so this post explains how to add a voki to your blog sidebar.
Our next post explains how to add them to [...]
How To Add an Email Subscription to Your Blog
February 6th 2008 by Sue Waters in Growing Blog Readership, Setting Up & Using Widgets, Tips For Better Blogging, Working With Web 2.0 Tools - 49 Comments
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 [...]
Creating Hyperlinks Using HTML
Last post on The Edublogger introduced HTML basics and showed readers how to use HTML to add their photo to their blog side bar.
As Kate Olsen highlighted, if you use your photo for your blog avatar, a simple alternative is to add the Avatar Widget to your side bar (learn more about Widgets here!). [...]
How To Add Your Photo to Your Blog Side Bar
Our next posts in our “blog makeover” series provides an excellent opportunity to respond to Dina Strasser suggestion to do:
a follow-up post on how to (and the limits to) customizing widgets. For example, I’d like to include on my sidebar a simple link to my Twitter page (no updates).
It is recommended you read the previous [...]
Getting More Out of Widgets!
January 19th 2008 by Sue Waters in Getting Blog Design Right, Setting Up & Using Widgets, Tips For Better Blogging - 89 Comments
Wow – thanks everyone. Your response, support and feedback has been incredible! We have set up this page to keep track of your feedback on what you’d like to see covered!
As you can see there are some really great topic areas to get us started. Which got me thinking! The Edublogger is about [...]
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