Note: this was not as simple as it looks - I ended up with lots of unwanted code in the post and had to delete it manually - anyone any ideas what I’m doing wrong?
Also, I’m unable to find the link on the Flickr page which leads to me finding the embed code - dohh - I’m not feeling very bright with this embed stuff - I’m hoping Patricia is reading this and can give me the right way to do it - again!
You can also embed a book list for your studentsYou might also want to look at Shelfari which is great for your sidebar as it’s a vertical presentation
I thought it might be fun to add a collaborative mindmap so I can update this post really easily. I have invited Patricia to collaborate on this, so I see she’s already added some new bits
From the Edublogs blog - great update and no more fiddling to get widgets to work - hurrahh
After lengthy discussions and weighing up of the pros and cons we’ve decided to allow javascript, iframes and object code onto Edublogs.
This means that you can now just copy and paste pretty much most ‘embedding’ code you can pick up around the web directly into your Edublog.
For posts and pages just click on the ‘Code’ tab and paste the code in there. For sidebar widgets just create as many Text Boxes as you need (under Presentation > Widgets) and copy and paste the code into them.
For example, say you wanted to play a widget game on your blog… simply go there, click on ‘Get Widget’, copy the code and paste it in your ‘Code tab and you’ll get theembedded widget right there in your blog’s sidebar or post
Also the GCast player now also works - brilliant news for podcasters - see it in my sidebar
However - Side note: As a result the Widgetbox, Box.net and Video Widgets will be replaced by this approach - so please recreate any widgets you currently have in Text Box form before we remove these widgets (next week).
It’s detailed and has all that you will need to get up and running with Edublogging - thanks Gail
The index looks like this, so anything here you want to find out about - check it out
Getting Started ……………………………………………………………………3
Viewing Your Blog………………………………………………………………..5
Changing Your Password……………………………………………………..6
Changing Other Information in the Users Panel ………………….6
Creating a Post or Page ……………………………………………………….7
Editing a Post ………………………………………………………………………7
Creating Pages……………………………………………………………………..8
Adding Hyperlinks to a Post (or Page) …………………………………9
Adding Anchor Links……………………………………………………………9
Creating Categories………………………………………………………………10
Assigning Categories ……………………………………………………………10
Adding Tags to a Post …………………………………………………………..11
Adding Links to Your Blog Roll……………………………………………..12
Adding Your Blog Roll to the Sidebar…………………………………….12
Changing the Presentation (Theme)………………………………………12
Adding Images or Documents to Your Blog …………………………..14
Formatting Images ……………………………………………………………….15
Changing Your Blog’s Tagline ………………………………………………..15
Monitoring Your Blog …………………………………………………………….16
Moderating Comments…………………………………………………………..17
Approving Comments …………………………………………………………..17
Editing Comments………………………………………………………………….17
Adding Edublog Community Users ………………………………………..18
Limiting Comments to Edublog Community Members ………….19
Ready for Advanced Edublogs Tutorials? ……………………………..19
Do also check out the rest of their blog as they have lots of tips and hints
I do think that they are the ones deserving of the accolades for not only producing a great add on for us, but also taking the time to make it sooooo easy to add one to your own Edublog site - see ClustrMaps update
This is a new function which allows you as an Edublogs user to create new blogs for others to use.
Key point is that you can add yourself as an administrator to assist them with some of the fiddly setting up and theme selection. All this can be managed from your own dashboard.
You can also choose to have them set up as author or contributor, so their posts are moderated first, before going live.
These are available free of charge in batches of 15, but you can have more if you require - if you need more, just fill in the first 15 on the blog form, process it and repeat
Edublogs Tutorials was 1 year old at the end of February
Many thanks to all of the 10,000 of you who have dropped in and taken a look
Well done all those of you who have used this and other sites to get your Edublogs up and running, as well as those who have helped me with tech tips and checking my sometimes faulty or ambiguously written advice
Just as a reminder, Vodpod is a great way to organise your videos from different sources. It also means your videos are with you at all times - great if you’re not in your own classroom etc.
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It seems that ClustrMaps is now available as a widget, so very much easier to use
Go into site administration
choose ‘presentation’ then ‘widgets’
in the selection box at the bottom, chose the ClustrMaps widget
Add a title
Click the ‘agree’ box
your blog address should already be in there
click ’save’ *
voila, you have a clustrmap in your sidebar.
Just as an extra
*If this is the first time you have used widgets, be aware that adding the first widget means all the others present in your theme will disappear from both sidebars (if you have 2). So to fix this, make sure you add them all from the selection box before saving
Key one is meta as this allows you to log in again - if you don’t have this, you end up being locked out of your own blog
