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Tips, tricks, ideas and help with using web 2.0 technologies and edublogs

Edublogs Gives Us New Freedom; Most ‘Embedding’ Code Can Now Be Pasted Directly into Our Blogs

March 17th, 2008 · 15 Comments

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 […]

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Tags: Blogging How To · Blogging Tips · Cool Web 2.0 & Desktop Tools

Adding A Voki Speaking Avatar To Your Blog Sidebar

February 24th, 2008 · 25 Comments

Voki speaking avatars are cool and lots of fun to create; educators use them to add a human element to their sites or to engage students. But they can be a bit pesky to embed in a blog so this post will explain how to add a voki to your blog sidebar and the […]

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Tags: Cool Web 2.0 & Desktop Tools

How To Add an Email Subscription to Your Blog

February 6th, 2008 · 12 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 […]

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Tags: Blogging How To · Blogging Tips

Creating Hyperlinks Using HTML

January 28th, 2008 · 9 Comments

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!). […]

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How To Add Your Photo to Your Blog Side Bar

January 24th, 2008 · 25 Comments

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 […]

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Getting More Out of Widgets!

January 19th, 2008 · 61 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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Tags: Blogging How To · Blogging Tips