Tider Techies

Are you ready for blog week?  This week we are revisiting blogging techniques and taking your blogs to the next level!

Before you jump in let’s review some of the basics.  Do you remember how to add pages and posts?  How about editing them?  Skim back over your posts and about page and see if you are needing any changes.

Last week, we commented on student blogs.  Did you get any comments back from them?  To check follow these steps:

1)  Log into your edublogs account
2)  Go to your dashboard
3)  Look on the left nav bar for the word comments (Is there a red text cloud?)
4)  Click comments
5)  If you have any to approve, mouse over the comment and click “approve.”
6)  If there is an issue with a comment, see me.

Are you ready to try something new?  You all enjoyed choosing a theme, but there are more ways to personalize your blog such as widgets.

If you have a myspace or Facebook page, you probably have already used widgets even if that is not what you called it.  There are a variety of widgets you can add from calendars to games to visitor counters.

Many of you have asked about the clustermap on my personal blog.  This is a great way to track visitors and there location in the world.  Sue Water’s has a great tutorial for adding widgets using the “text widget”.  The example she uses is the clustermap.

Of course don’t forget to stop by and visit more student blogs and comment, comment, comment.  As you start to build a group of blogs you like to read, you will want to find an easier way to read “all at once” instead of going to individual urls. We will also learn about rss readers to help you manage your blog reading!