Entries Tagged 'Blogging' ↓

Curate.us is a nice site for adding clips to your blog posts.

If you have your students blog and you want them to be able to keep their postings after the class is over, consider using Anthologize (AnthologizeYou will need a WordPress installed on a server; in other words this will not work at the hosted WordPress.com site.

If you are an teacher and you would like to use a WordPress blogging site as a site for a course, you can install the Scholarpress plug-in available at ScholarPress Courseware.
Here is the description of what is available with their plug-in:

“As of version 1.0, ScholarPress Courseware gives you the ability to create entries in a schedule in the Schedule page, add items of various media to a bibliography in the Bibliography page, and assign those bibliography items to read (or create other types of assignments) in the Assignments page, and edit your course information in the Course Info page.”

Here’s a place where students can have their own blogs.

Learner Blogs

These sites may be worth perusing periodically.

Online Journals for College Educators

Want to learn more about blogs and wikis and how to use them in education. This is probably a good resource.

BLOGs WIKIs etc Tools Exploring Online Resources TLT Group Faculty Professional Development Workshop Tailored Website

If you want to remove the Navigation bar found at the top of your blogger page, go to this site. This simple change in a template would be very useful if you are a school teacher and you don’t want your kids to click on the Next Blog button found in the upper right-hand corner.

BLOGGER TEMPLATE :: Remove the NavBar

If you would like a theme (template) that is different from the themes available through blogger, check out this site. BE WARNED: If you have modified your blogger template by adding something different, YOU WILL LOSE IT so you may want to see if you can add those special features before you use one of these templates.

BLOGGER TEMPLATES :: A template for my blog

Want to create your own video blog. Check out these video tutorials.

Freevlog: Tutorial

Interested in using blogging in your classes? This book might be what you want. Here’s the description at Amazon’s site:

“Detailed instructions for creating your own professional weblog using free services, creating an instructional weblog using BlogMesiter (a free classroom blogging tool), creating an interactive class wiki site, creating a personal digital library of dynamic content using RSS, produce your own podcast program, and use weblogs, wikis, RSS, and podcasting to help you teach and help students learn.”

Amazon.com: Books: Classroom Blogging: A Teacher’s Guide to the Blogosphere

I recently purchase Ecto (http://ecto.kung-foo.tv/), which allows you to quickly access your blog to enter new posts. One of the nice features about Ecto is that it allows you do special things like bullets, numbering, font styles, etc. I realize you can do this within your browser when you log into Blogger but unfortunately, those HTML features are not visible within Safari. They are visible within Firefox but for some reason Firefox keeps crashiing on me. Besides, I don’t want to have to open another browser.

Here are some examples:

• Item #1
• Item #2
• Italicized print, bold, underline strike through color,

Okay, you’re ready to put your movies into Blogger. Here’s how to do it – Videoblogging with Blogger

There is software called ecto that allows you to easily post to your blog. It has some nice editing features. It also spell checks as you type. One of the things I notice when posting to my blog in blogger is that if I use Safari, I don’t have access to various editing features so I have to use Firefox or Mozilla.

Here’s an example of what can be done with ecto.

1. You can create a numbered list (which I have done here with ecto).
2. You can choose the font and the the characters can be italicized, bold,
3. underlined, and strike-through.
4. You can change the font and the size (this is Geneva, 14 font).
5. You can change the font color. (This the web-safe color, CC3333).
6. You can create a hyperlink – My Learning Digitally Web site. You can specify whether the link will open in the same window, new window, same frame, or parent frame.
7. There are other text-editing features that I’m not describing.

You can learn more about ecto by going to http://ecto.kung-foo.tv/

[posted with ecto]