The Edublogger

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• 1    James // Jan 15, 2008 at 5:09 pm

  Congrats on the new blog Sue, I think this is going to rock

• 2    incorporated subversion - education, media, community » Blog Archive » Introducing The Edublogger // Jan 15, 2008 at 5:22 pm

  [...] starting off by asking what interests you? So why don’t you scoot on over there and tell her [...]

• 3    mrferlazzo // Jan 15, 2008 at 5:27 pm

  Sue and James,

  This is a great idea!

  Sue does such a great job in explaining how to use Web 2.0 applications on her blog, with clear directions and diagrams, it would be great if she could do the same for working with Edublogs.

  I’d love explanations on how to embed stuff, how to really use widgets — all the stuff that “old hands” know like the palm of their hands, but which technological idiots like myself don’t have a real clue on how to do.

  I’m also sure Alice Mercer would appreciate me learning this stuff so I could stop bugging her!

  Larry Ferlazzo

• 4    alicemercer // Jan 15, 2008 at 5:46 pm

  Larry,

  Are you kidding? I’ve lost my “thrall” over you if that happens! Maybe I can just bake cookies to get you indebted to me.

• 5    mrscloukey // Jan 15, 2008 at 6:10 pm

  I’d like to know if anyone has assessed student responses in their blog. I have a feeling my district will be asking me this question… wanted to see if anyone out there is already assessing and how. There is such a push with state testing that somehow my blog is now part of the prep?!? Scary… I don’t like it, but if anyone can offer help in this area, I would appreciate it.

• 6    technotuesday // Jan 15, 2008 at 6:34 pm

  Sue! Small world! It is good t have a “known” friend over here as i contemplate my own domain. James has 99% convinced me to stay w/ Edublogs as what I want is on the horizon, so I’m still here. I must admit though that I do like the edublog platform. Subscribing today folks!!
  Cathy

• 7    OTN @ CIT » Blog Archive » Blogging, edublogging, edubloggers and The Edublogger! // Jan 15, 2008 at 6:49 pm

  [...] Welcome to The Edublogger! [...]

• 8    James Walker // Jan 15, 2008 at 6:52 pm

  Sue, my personal blog is with Edublogs and in my previous classroom I had set up a blog with WordPressMU that I had downloaded and set up on the school ISP, but I have limited access now. With WordPressMU I was the admin and could set up student accounts, which was important because I am a special ed teacher and the privacy issues for sped are tight. I want to blog with high school sped students, but now I don’t have access to WordPressMU. Using Edublogs can I set up a user account for each student without them actually having their own blog? What I have done so far is create a classroom blog and invited students using my gmail account, ie. teacher+student@gmail. But then the student is asked to set up a bolg. Maybe once parents and the admin feel more comfortable each student can have their own blob, but right now I just want them to be able to have an account so they can post and comment on the classroom blog.
  Jim

• 9    mrsolson // Jan 15, 2008 at 7:14 pm

  Glad you’re doing this, Sue! I hope you’ll continue to be my personal blog mentor as well Your wisdom needs to be shared with the masses!

  mrscloukey - I actually do assess my students’ responses, and I do it just as I would any other writing assignment. You can check out my classroom blog at http://mrsolson.edublogs.org (we’re still pretty new!). I haven’t done a lot of assessment on spelling, etc. yet, but that’s where I’m heading. Good luck!

  James - the student should have the choice to check “just a username, please” when setting up an account, rather than “gimme a blog” - unless things have changed drastically in the last few days?

• 10    Kathryn Greenhill // Jan 15, 2008 at 7:22 pm

  Congratulations Sue. My interest in the “how to” side is less techie and more to do with getting acceptance of new tools and new directions - loosening up structures and over-zealous security to take full advantage of these new tools. I’d love to see some material here about tips and tricks people use for this.

  I’d love to see a series on “setting up your blog from scratch”. The process of design, making decisions about content - as well as the “this is how your tweak the right widget for you” techie tips.

• 11    James // Jan 15, 2008 at 7:40 pm

  Wow, great comments

  @mrsolson there’s still an option for ‘Just a username please’ at the bottom of this isn’t there?

  http://edublogs.org/wp-signup.php

• 12    James // Jan 15, 2008 at 7:41 pm

  Of course you need to be logged out to see it… if you;re logged in you already have a username!

• 13    alexanderhayes // Jan 15, 2008 at 8:20 pm

  Well well…..

  Might mean you can escape the hum-drum of System 32.

  Well done and congrats on THE new role with Edublogger.

  Ps. dont forget to embed that Twitter widget

• 14    Dave Sherman // Jan 15, 2008 at 8:35 pm

  Sue,
  I am looking forward to following your new blog. I have so many different interests related to blogging, technology, and education. Top on my list are the following: Helping teachers use the Web 2.0 in interesting, engaging, and educationally sound ways. Also, I am looking for easier, more efficient ways to embed video and audio into my blog. Finally, I am always looking to expand my personal learning network and tapping into the brains of all the smart people out there in the edublogosphere.
  Good luck!
  Dave

• 15    Sue Waters // Jan 15, 2008 at 9:38 pm

  Thanks James for giving me the opportunity to be involved with the Edublogger! I have already been congratulated on great name and URL choice (you choose well!).

  Larry - thanks for your great words of support although I would hate to get between you and Alice :), mind you the cookies sound nice! Are we talking widgets in the side menus? Are there any in particular that you are really interested in? And can you tell me which embeds you need help with? As a subscriber to your blog I’m not convinced that you are an “technological idiot” but smart move as it sounds like cookies are coming your way!

  Hi Mrs Cloukey — good question that I think is worth checking out in more detail. In the meantime Mrs Olson has provided you a link to her blog so you can see how she is doing it.

  Hi Cathy - glad that my involvement with the Edublogger helps! Agreed the Edublog platform is excellent. How are your eyes?

  Hi James - will investigate your question further, regarding student accounts, and get back to you.

  Mrs Olsen (Kate)–Thanks for the congrads and off course I will continue to be yours (and anyone else’s) blog mentor. I believe James has answered your question?

  Hi Kathryn - thanks for the congratulations. Getting other people to buy into using technology is something that we all struggle with. Last year I was actually funded to research this area so more than happy to share what I learnt plus all the posts I have been reading on this area recently. Although feeling humbled by the thought of you asking me to write a series of posts on setting up a blog from scratch — as you are the more experienced blogger.

  Hi Alex — you will be pleased to know that I am away from the hum drum of System 32 because am working on a Mac at the moment. Thanks for the congratulations regarding the Edublogger. mmm will think about the Twitter widget

  Hi Dave - thanks for providing me the feedback on your interests. I would also like to thank you for wishing me luck and for writing a nice post about the launch of The Edublogger.

• 16    John Larkin // Jan 16, 2008 at 1:04 am

  Sensational Sue! Well done, and I do look forward to reading your posts on Edublogger.

  I know that the energies that you apply to harnessing the power of the medium to engage both teachers and learners will also be evident here in Edublogger.

  You have an innate ability to bring out the best in educators Sue. You inspire, share and teach by example.

  Best wishes, John

• 17    Gabriela Grosseck // Jan 16, 2008 at 1:24 am

  Sue,

  congrats and many many good posts (as you gave us until now) here on EduBlogger!

• 18    dogtrax // Jan 16, 2008 at 2:44 am

  I think this can become a great resource for teachers wondering how to enter into the conversation and the blogging world (which, of course, leads to other Web 2.0 worlds).
  I have you in my RSS!

  Kevin

• 19    Larry Ferlazzo // Jan 16, 2008 at 3:02 am

  Sue,

  Unfortunately, I know just enough about technology to sound like I know what I’m talking about without really getting it….

  Yes, I mean widgets in the sidebar and I’m talking about embeds for just about everything. For example (this is true confessions here) I’d love to use Kwout to put an image of my webpage on my sidebar, but I don’t know how to do sizing. I’d also like to put a Clustr map that shows where my blog’s visitors come from.

  I want to explore how to use widgets, but am afraid I’ll lose everything I’ve got on my sidebar now if I mess-up.

  I suspect I’m not the only one out there who doesn’t understand this stuff….

  Thanks in advance for all the great stuff I know you’ll be posting about!

  Larry

• 20    Graham Wegner // Jan 16, 2008 at 3:14 am

  Sue, it wasn’t all that long ago (well over a year I think!) I had a Skype conversation with Alex Hayes and your good self where you declared that you didn’t really “get blogging”. How things have changed - look at you now!!
  Well done. A fantastic choice.

• 21    Thomas // Jan 16, 2008 at 5:36 am

  I cannot find an email link for support / help. (I know it was there before…. I used it….)

  I am training teachers on my campus and one of them (mlcortez) has lost access to the administrative site of her blog. When she pulls up her page, there is no login link. She has no dashboard.

  You may assist her directly at mary.cortez@tisd.org.

• 22    Joel McDonald // Jan 16, 2008 at 5:47 am

  Congratulations on this new endeavour! I wish you all the best!

• 23    Larry Ferlazzo // Jan 16, 2008 at 7:01 am

  Sue,

  One more thing — it would be great to learn more about embedding videos, too!

  Larry

• 24    Kate Olson // Jan 16, 2008 at 9:07 am

  Sue and James -

  In my comment (from mrsolson) I was actually replying to James Walker, not asking a question Thanks for your replies, though!

• 25    Darren Draper // Jan 16, 2008 at 10:16 am

  Congrats, Sue! You’re perfect for this!

  You asked for it, I’ll give it to you:

  What I don’t need is another echo in the chamber. Personally, I think this blog would do well to act as another filter in bringing the great posts to the top - perhaps the Sue Waters version of OLDaily.

  I’ve said it once, and I’ll say it again: most educators simply don’t have the time to read hundreds of blogs - even if they chose to use RSS. What we need - if not an educational focussed Digg - is someone competent enough to bring us the best on a regular basis. Now don’t get me wrong: Stephen does a fantastic job with OlDaily! I just think that another effort - perhaps even a community effort - would be a healthy addition.

  Thanks for your hard work, Sue!

  DD

• 26    Mr Moshé // Jan 16, 2008 at 10:57 am

  Larry,

  Thanks for bringing a focus on video embedding. I tried to embed videos a number of times in the last few weeks, and it doesn’t seem to want to work.

  Not sure why.

  I’d like more options for video embedding

• 27    Mr Moshé // Jan 16, 2008 at 10:58 am

  Oh, and congrats on the awesome position.

• 28    Brian C. Smith // Jan 16, 2008 at 11:37 am

  Sue, as always, you rock. I have to agree with my fellow countryman, Darren above. I think you are right for this and that we need the best of the best if you can! We’ll help all we can by sharing and adding comments, etc. Best of luck on this! We’ll be watching (and commenting)!

• 29    Sue Waters // Jan 16, 2008 at 7:57 pm

  Hi John - thanks for your kind words and especially all the support you always provide me.

  Thanks Gabriela - glad you joined us at The Edublogger. Thanks for all the great links you give me in del.icio.us.

  Hi Kevin (Dogtrax) - we hope it will be a great resource for educators, and hope the community will work together to help one another.

  Larry - will get back to you on widgets and embedding videos. Really appreciate the feedback you are providing — keep them coming.

  Yes I also have fond memories of that exact conversation Graham. Now doesn’t that prove it if Sue Waters can become a blogger that that there is hope for everyone!

  Hi Thomas — thanks for your feedback I will forward it onto Support.

  Thanks Joel - definitely new and exciting. I really appreciate all the support you have always shown me.

  Well Darren — what can I say! You are right I did ask the questions. The whole echo chamber issue is a very interesting point because to some extent there is a need for echo chambers because interacting with different networks means you don’t always hear the news; and some people limit their sources. Scary thought Sue’s version of OLD daily - nice thought but for me there is only one Stephen Downes. To be honest I don’t envy Stephen Downes — in the short time I have been using the Shared Google Reader integration with Gtalk I have seen how individual people’s preference’s in posts are. But you are right - and you are spot on with “community effort” because my aim is a community effort where we respond to the questions asked by the community with the community assisting by answering the questions.

  Hi Mr Moshe - thanks for both the congratulations and for your feedback on videos. Are there any particular video sites that are causing you more issues than others? Or perhaps you can give me the link to those you are having trouble with so I can investigate closer.

  Thank Brian - as always appreciate both yours and Darren’s support. Will work hard to give my best!

• 30    John Larkin // Jan 16, 2008 at 9:02 pm

  Hi Sue,
  I see that you like chocolate, Cadbury’s chocolate, and is that a Picnic bar in your left hand? It is the historian in me, examining photographs for intricate details of the society and clues to dates, etc.
  Once again, all the best!
  John

• 31    Sue Waters // Jan 16, 2008 at 9:36 pm

  Hi John - fairly good detective work. Definitely a Cadbury’s chocolate bar but in the other hand is a bottle of coke - many say these are my secret weapon for keeping up with everything I do. There will definitely be no Picnic bar in my hand as I’m not into Picnics

• 32    » Becoming A More Effective Blogger:The 31 Day Blogging Project Mobile Technology in TAFE // Jan 16, 2008 at 11:52 pm

  [...] Graham Wegner highlighted in his comment on The Edublogger –”it wasn’t all that long ago (well over a year I think!) I had a Skype conversation [...]

• 33    Mr Moshé // Jan 17, 2008 at 6:17 am

  Sue,

  As it turns out the videos may not be working at my school site because the district I teach in is blocking content from that site.

  Maybe you could head over to the link here —-

  http://moshej.edublogs.org/student-work-samples-overview-page/student-work-samples/skits-films-and-sketches/

  Let me know if it works for you. I had one student tell me it worked from her computer at home. So my suspicion may be correct.

  But since you ask, I’d like to see seamless integration of Photobucket.com content if it can be worked out.

  Thanks !!

  Cheers !!

• 34    blogwalker // Jan 17, 2008 at 8:16 am

  Hello Sue,

  I just visited your blog and can already tell that you know things that I need to know. The trouble is I don’t always know what those things are. I would love it if you posted a link to a Tip of the Day kind of thing that would appear in our Dashboards. I’m subscribing to The Edublogger right now, and look forward to following discussions and learning new strategies.

  Thanks to both you and James for providing us with powerful tools and a dynamic learning community,

  Gail

• 35    SocProf // Jan 17, 2008 at 7:39 pm

  Like Gail, I have a vague sense of what I want without really specifics: I want more plugins… not sure what’s out there but I’d like to have options.

  Christine

• 36    carlaraguseo // Jan 17, 2008 at 8:07 pm

  Congratulations on the new blog!
  (or shall I say OUR blog)

  I look forward to sharing and learning from Sue and this great community.

  Warm regards form Argentina

• 37    Sue Waters // Jan 18, 2008 at 1:38 am

  Hi Mr Moshe - the video doesn’t appear to be working for me. For my own personal curiosity - Is there a reason why you prefer photobucket?

  Hi Gail (Blogwalker) - Glad you liked my blog and thanks for suggesting the Tip of the Day — will definitely be getting back to you on this. James and I are very excited about working with the community.

  Hi Christine (SocProf) - Plugins are definitely James area so will forward the information on.

  Hi Carla - thanks for such a nice warm welcome and you are correct it is definitely OUR blog.

• 38    mrsemery // Jan 18, 2008 at 8:49 am

  Sue,

  Thanks so much for providing this resource!

  Something I am interested in: How can I track the traffic on my blog? Sometimes I get comments, but I would like to know exactly how many people (hopefully my students) are at least just going to the blog in the first place.

  Thanks!

• 39    Mr Moshé // Jan 18, 2008 at 4:17 pm

  A good majority of the kids already have photobucket accounts. I do too. I was considering a rockyou account, but it’s blocked at my school site; as is bubbleshare. Not sure what to do here.

• 40    tasteach // Jan 18, 2008 at 9:13 pm

  From a total newbie. What are widgets? I would like to put a clustr map on my blog, have got the HTML code saved at the moment. How do I do that? What is the difference between categories and tags and why do both appear on my posts on my blog? Do I need them both?

• 41    Sue Waters // Jan 18, 2008 at 11:23 pm

  Mrs Emery - We are happy to be providing this resource and working with the community. Tracking traffic to your blog is a really great question and a topic that many want to know more about. I use Google Analytics and will write a post on how to install it so you can get the maximum out of using it.

  I thought, Mr Moshe, that the reason for Photobucket had to relate to sites being blocked. Will have to get back to you on this matter.

  Actually Sue (tasteach) they are really fantastic questions. A Clustr map is an example of widget - but I will find a more in depth explanation because there will be many people that want to know what they are as well as how to embed Clustr maps. What can I say - categories and tags are a fantastic question - I was discussing this exact topic and getting my friends to explain this for me clearly this week. So will definitely get back with a simple explanation.

• 42    blogwalker // Jan 19, 2008 at 8:29 am

  Sue,

  I like the explanation on the difference between tags and categories at Lorelle’s site: http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/09/21/tags-arrive-on-wordpresscom-blogs/.

  I am updating the training manual I use with teachers, so I’m wondering if there is anything I should add or change.

  Gail Desler

• 43    tasteach // Jan 19, 2008 at 8:34 pm

  Sue, thank you so much for this explanation about how to embed widgets and what they are. I have now changed a few things in my sidebar and have embedded the clustrmap widget. Now a couple of other questions: what is RSS feed compared to email? Also how do you get the search widget and how do you make your categories and archive widgets look like search boxes instead of lists?

• 44    Sue Waters // Jan 20, 2008 at 3:05 am

  Hi Gail - thanks for telling me about the information on Lorelle’s site on tags and categories. I will definitely use it when writing a post on this topic; I also have librarian bloggers who have been providing me information on this as well. Gail are the resources you use for teachers on your blog or located on another site?

  Excellent news Sue (Tasteach) - I popped past your site and was so excited with what you have achieved so far. In your available widget area you should have two search widgets - Search and Google Search. I prefer to use Search because it is simple and searches within the blog. To add to your blog drag the Search widget from the Available Widget area to your Side Bar area and then click on Save Changes.

  Explaining RSS feed compared to email can be hard for new people to get their head around. I have tried to explain it on this page of the blog and would appreciate your feedback to whether I have explained it adequately. Also worth watching RSS in Plain English. If you feel the video explains it clearer I will add it to my explanation.

  My archives and category boxes are drop down menus - the reason why I have done this is to reduce clutter on the side bars. If you click on the small boxes on the right of the widget it opens up the widget and you can select the options. I just ticked the drop down menu option for each.

• 45    blogwalker // Jan 20, 2008 at 3:01 pm

  Hi Sue,

  Good idea. I just added a link to the manual from my blog. Here’s the link to the PDF - http://a3wp.edublogs.org/files/2008/01/edublogs_01-2008.pdf.

  Gail

• 46    tasteach // Jan 20, 2008 at 9:33 pm

  Sue,
  Thanks so much for your information on the drop down boxes. Have made changes now to my sidebar but each section looks like they are running into each other. How can I make them look separate? My next step to read up on RSS and email from your previous post.

• 47    mcwane2008 // Jan 20, 2008 at 11:37 pm

  Can we post an audio greeting in the blog?
  GabCast of Canada may contact you.
  I have code to paste in but I don’t know where to do it.

• 48    tasteach // Jan 21, 2008 at 12:52 am

  Hi Sue,
  Read up on your blog and that showed me how to subscribe, but the video you mentioned actually showed me what RSS was about. It was excellent and well worth viewing.

• 49    Sue Waters // Jan 21, 2008 at 7:53 pm

  Thanks Gail (Blogwalker) - your manual is excellent and will suggest people check it out.

  Sue (Tasteach) you are doing an excellent job and the widgets don’t look they are running into each other to me. If I had any suggestions I would remove Calender as it is not really necessary and put comments at the bottom of the side bar. Sounds like you recommend I should also add the video.

  Mcwane2008 - this will depend on the code it is using. If it contains Javascript then there is a problem.

• 50    mrsdwhite // Jan 22, 2008 at 9:23 pm

  hi~

  Is there a way other than trying each theme out to learn which ones allow changing the default font size/style? I’m more concerned with size at this point.

  Thanks ! I’m looking forward to using this with my students.

• 51    Kate Quinn // Jan 23, 2008 at 8:10 pm

  Hi Sue!

  What a great topic for a new blog, you’ll have huge successes with it no doubt (when have you ever not been successful!)

  I’ll be subscribing and looking very much forward to reading your blogging tips

  Kate

• 52    Sue Waters // Jan 23, 2008 at 11:42 pm

  Hi Mrs D White - I’m just finding out the information about themes for you and will get back to you.

  Hi Kate - thanks for such nice thoughts and thanks for subscribing.

• 53    Claire // Jan 29, 2008 at 1:45 am

  Sue, this idea is marvelous but it starts one step ahead of where I am at with blogging. As part of my own awareness raising I located the edublogs site but I need much more basic info to get me going with a blog. I tried emailing/commenting to James but never got any further. Are you able to include the dummies stuff on your blog? Or can you redirect me to somewhere with absolute basics?

• 54    Jeff // Jan 29, 2008 at 4:05 am

  Hello hello, this blog is terrific. I’ve been poking around with WordPress and a little bit with edublogs for some time now, but I’d REALLY love to know how to make WP/edublogs work as a homepage for my department at the university. I teach Spanish and my dept. is badly in need of a web makeover. Any help on this?

  Gracias,

  Jeff

• 55    Kate Olson // Jan 29, 2008 at 5:41 am

  Claire -

  I’d love to help you get started, I’m actually working on an edublogs manual with another edublogs fan. Please contact me through the “contact me” page on http://googtweetblog.edublogs.org

• 56    Gail Desler // Jan 29, 2008 at 10:10 pm

  Hello Sue and EB Community,

  This Friday and Saturday I’ll be joining Steve Hargadon and other educators at a Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco. Here’s a link to the agenda - http://www.classroom20wiki.com/SF+Live+2008+Agenda . And if you scroll to the last hour on Saturday, you’ll see that I have a 5-minute spot to showcase (”5-minute lightening demos”) Edublogs. Anybody have suggestions as to what to include?

  Gail

• 57    Sue Waters // Jan 29, 2008 at 10:31 pm

  Hi Claire - thanks for your feedback. Very good point so I will set up a page on Getting Started With Edublogs which you can access from the navigation at the top of the Edublogger.

  Jeff - the community would love to help you out however we would need some more guidance regarding what you want.

  Kate - perhaps you could also help by checking out the information I put together and providing feedback?

  Congratulations Gail - sound like a great opportunity. I must admit I’m not sure what I would showcase hopefully others in the community will provide their thoughts?

• 58    Kate Olson // Jan 30, 2008 at 4:09 am

  Sue and Gail -

  Just emailed you my top 3! I’ll get cracking on revising the manual, i have tons of great screenshots to add

  Kate Olson

• 59    Kate Olson // Jan 30, 2008 at 4:18 am

  Jeff -

  I’d love to help you with this - kind of a passion of mine You can contact me through my blog at http://googtweetblog.edublogs.org

• 60    Teachers At Risk » Reflections about setting up my classroom blog // Feb 1, 2008 at 5:17 pm

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• 61    Teachers At Risk » Reflections about starting my classroom blog // Feb 1, 2008 at 5:24 pm

  [...] this point, I want to say that the edublogs.org site has been very user friendly and the new Edublogger by Sue explains things so that even I can get it. Believe me, sometimes I have a hard time getting [...]

• 62    dbrosius // Feb 2, 2008 at 6:12 pm

  5 years ago, with the blessings from my principal to dumpster dive into our computer grave yard, I set up a paper less English class. A few rough spots and a lot of trial and error learning has paid off to a fully functional, user friendly paperless class. My 182 high school students absolutely LOVE the addition of the virtual classroom aka my edublog. It took about a week, right before the school year, to set up and it has been a HUGE success. Edublogs is the perfect bridge between class and home. Thank you for all the great advice and neat little tricks. Most of all thank you for keeping the explanations simple enough for this left brained English teacher to manage.

• 63    Alan Levine // Feb 3, 2008 at 7:20 am

  Hi Sue- a late congratulations for you becoming THE Edublogger and I can see you are bringing great tips and how tos to the community in typical Sue Waters quality.

  Just in fun, I’m looking at how the URl mushes words together and what it might mean if “theedublogger” is read as “Thee Dub Logger” or “Theed Ub Logger” or “The Ed Ublogger”

  Blog on, my friend in Perth!

• 64    Sue Waters // Feb 6, 2008 at 10:52 pm

  Thanks D. Brosius glad the Edublogger has been of assistance and pleased to hear how the Edublogs has helped with your classes.

  Thanks Alan - have to say my favourite is “Thee Dub Logger” — wonder how James would feel about the name change ? Thinking it is time you visited Perth again.

• 65    ldroberts // Feb 9, 2008 at 3:44 am

  Hello - I’m having problems with the widgetbox…I watched the short instructional video but I couldn’t find ‘panel id’ in any of the code (WordPress & JavaScript) for any of the widgets I want to put on my blog!

  I hope someone can help!

• 66    Sue Waters // Feb 9, 2008 at 3:52 am

  Hi Lauren (ldroberts) - can you give me some examples of the widgets from Widgebox you want to add to your blog so I can check them out?

• 67    ldroberts // Feb 9, 2008 at 6:18 pm

  Hi Sue - I have since discovered that I can put the widget on my blog using the ‘text’ widget….it is accepting the WordPress code.

  I was trying to put the crystal clock widget on (http://www.widgetbox.com/widget/crystal-clock) using widgetbox 1 but it wouldn’t work, using either WP or JavaScript code.

  The text box looks ok!
  many thanks
  LAUREN

• 68    Randy Rodgers // Feb 10, 2008 at 6:12 pm

  Sue,

  The blog is great! Only trouble is, now I have a bit more work to do on my own. Why must you torment me so?

• 69    Sue Waters // Feb 16, 2008 at 4:03 pm

  Great news Lauren that you have managed to add a Crystal clock widget to your blog. I’ve checked it out and it looks really nice. You must be pleased that you managed to get it to work.

  Sorry Randy I didn’t mean to torment you . Although I know your feeling — need to do a bit of a makeover on my own personal blog and have to make some time.

• 70    aliu516 // Jun 2, 2008 at 2:49 pm

  I was wondering how to change the alignment or justifications of the post titles, the ones with the links. My comments are also centered, but I want them to be normal, left-justified. I have already tried using when editing the comments but it doesn’t work.

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