Using third party (non edublogs) widgets to add the frills

Mar 04 2007

Using third party (non edublogs) widgets to add the frills

Published by Mike Temple at 5:49 am under Widgets

It would appear that the best themes for adding widgets are the following:

Almost Spring,
Andreas 09,
Daydream,
Freshy,
Ocadia

note: please read the update at the end of this post see the current update
to change your theme, you will need to get into the editing area of your blog. According to your theme, you will either need to click on edit part of your posts, all use the site admin button in your sidebar. Once there, click on the presentation menu at the top. From here, you will be able to see all of the different types of themes available to you.

All the posts below, with video, pictures and calendars have used widgets but not all of the widgets have worked so I shall be investigating further with these other themes.

My hope is to come up with a theme that will support widgets in posts, and in the sidebar as well as RSS feeds for categories as I feel these are the most important aspects for using edublogs in the classroom.

update:

I have tried all of these themes with absolutely no success. Even though the administrators have suggested that these themes will support widgets, the remaining ones I need to use do not seem to be available.

I will let you know, if I make any progress with adding polls from

www.quimble.com

www.slideshare.com - this one embeds PowerPoint slides into your post and for me is a vital addition to any educational blog.

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One Response to “Using third party (non edublogs) widgets to add the frills”

# lmhartleyon 05 Mar 2007 at 5:09 pm

You’ve got a terminology problem here Mike. Widgets are available for the themes you mention and also for Regulus, the one I use. You get to them via your dashboard. Choose ‘presentation’ & you’ll see a tab for them. However widgets in a Wordpress context means things you can add to your sidebar not posts.
Things adding functionality to posts are called plug-ins. You need to enable them from your dashboard. For polls the democarcy plug-in works brilliantly - see this one Learning Styles - Classroom Displays Blog
Enable your wikispace & I’ll gladly add some more tips there