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Warm Up Questions:
- How to you add an external gadget?
- How do you add students as contributors to your blog? Did you do that and check it? Problems faced?
- How do you add blogs to your blog roll? Did you do that for at least 2 people and check it? Problems faced?
- How do you collect student information like email address or blog addresses?
- How did you add the creative commons gadget to your web site? Did it work? Which type did you choose and why?
- Did you add all your gmail accounts as admins for your blog? Why do this?
1. Pretty much the same as internal except you start with the Html/Java widget. Then you go to a site like widget box, find a widget and copy the HTML script.
ReplyDelete2.Get their email address and paste it into you contributors widget. Yes and no.
3. Same as #2 except you paste their url into the blog list widget. Yes and no.
4. The best method is using a Google form, put the info in a spreadsheet, cut and paste.
5. Go to the site, pick from the menu and past the script in the form of a widget. Yes, Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivs. It was the best fit for this site.
6.Yes, So I could manage the blog from a non TTSD site.
Ditto...just kidding.
ReplyDelete1. Dave is a bright guy so I will go with his method. I don't think, however, that I will want to do that often as I like a more streamlined approach to these things. Keep it simple.
2. Use their e-mail. I would make sure and use the school email and then have them add this to their personal account. The one issue I see is that most students today don't really use email. I would want some method that shows blog activity on whatever social site the student is using, such as Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram.
3. Again, Dave is right on. I have not done this yet but I will.
4. I have not done this yet either but will. Yes, I am that student who gets his work in but usually at the last minute...
5. I did as it allows me to manage the site regardless of how I logged in to Google; however, I don't know if I want to do this. I like keeping a relatively clear line between work and personal. The one area where I don't do this is with Youtube. That makes me a little uncomfortable now that my son is watching Minecraft videos so i will be creating a new account eventually that is strictly for work.
You're too funny!
Delete1. Go to a site that has gadgets, such as Widget Box and follow their directives. Then go to your Layout page and add the gadgets.
ReplyDelete2. To add students as contributors, go to dashboard, settings, add authors.
3. To collect student information you need to start by posting a form to your blog: type in whatever information you are looking to receive.) The form is in spreadsheet form on your google acct.
4. Go to creative commons website, choose the licenses that you want on your blog and follow the directions. I chose attribution, noncommercial and share-alike because those qualiities worked well for me.
5. Yes, I added all my accounts hoping that I can use any account to look at my blog.
Hello, Time to warm up!!
ReplyDelete•External Gadgets are small pieces of HTML code that can be added to a blog site to add a unique functionality. These gadgets are found through searching on the web for "blog gadgets" or "blog widgets".
•Students can be added as contributors, meaning they can comment and reply, provided you have set up your preferences to allow their contributions. You need to attain their email addresses, then send an invitation to join your blog. They should confirm their participation.
•You paste the web address of their blog into the gadget that can show blog lists.
•Collecting web addresses is made possible by creating a Google Docs form. This form will include questions pertaining to email addresses and the names of the students. This information will compile into a spreadsheet. The email addresses on this spreadsheet can be copy and pasted into the addresses for prospective authors that are sent out as a, previously mentioned, invitation.
•I went to the Creative Commons website and filled out the form to create the specific CC license. This generates some HTML code that is copy and pasted into an HTML gadget for the blog. I used the CC license enabling people to take my material, not for profit, and unable to change it.
• I can access my blog via different emails. This will enable me to post pictures or other information via my personal Gmail account that my school Google account wouldn't allow.
How do you add an external gadget?
ReplyDeleteThe way you use an external gadget is to find a gadget on a widget website, like Widgetbox, and copy and paste the HTML into an HTML/Java script gadget into your layout page on your dashboard.
How do you add students as contributors to your blog? Did you do that and check it? Problems faced?
To add contributors I went to my dashboard and clicked on "settings". Then I clicked on "basic". Once there I was able to add emails onto my blog through the "+Add Authors" button. Once the emails were added, each email was sent an invitation to be an author on my blog. I did do this, and it worked great. the only problem I forsee is being given the wrong email.
How do you add blogs to your blog roll? Did you do that for at least 2 people and check it? Problems faced?
To add blogs to my blog list I first needed to add a blog list gadget to my layout. Once that gadget was added to my layout I was able to go into that gadget and add the blog address into the gadget, and it then showed up on my blog list. This worked well for me with no problems.
How do you collect student information like email address or blog addresses?
What I did to collect information was to go into my google drive and create a form that collected that information that I needed. Once it was created, I was able to embed the HTML into either a post or a page, making sure there were no viewing restrictions on it.
How did you add the creative commons gadget to your web site? Did it work? Which type did you choose and why?
To get the creative commons gadget I went to the Creative Commons website and chose the restrictions I wanted. I then copied and pasted the HTML for the licence into an HTML/JavaScript gadget. This worked great. I chose Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs.
Did you add all your gmail accounts as admins for your blog? Why do this?
I did add all of my gmail accounts as an admin to this blog. I did this so that regardless of what I am logged in as I am able to get into and change my blog regardless of the account I am using.
Hi Jill
ReplyDeleteThese are great questions. This is a great example of how to use blogging in our classrooms.
1. In adding an external gadget, we went to widget, chose widgets, and added them to our blog. In the examples we had yesterday, the sites walked us through fairly easily; I'm hoping and assuming they all will do that.
2. To add a student to your blog, you go to your blog's dashboard,then go to settings. In settings, click on 'add author'. In the box, type their account making sure to put commas between each address. Yes, I did do that, and no I don't think there were any problems other than my inbox quickly filled up with people accepting my invitation.
3. I am not 100% certain, but I think we do the same as in #2, however, we cut and pasted their URL address into the box. Yes, I did that, but that was 24 hours ago. I'm not sure I can remember!
4. To collect students emails, we created a google form. Once the form has been created, we embed it into our post by pasting our URL address. I love this form and plan on using it at back-to-school night with the parents.
5. By going to the Creative Commons Website, you can go to the pull-down bar titled 'licenses'. From there, follow the steps to add it to your blog. I added CC, BY, NC, and SA
6. It's important to add your gmail accounts to your blog as administrators so you can access and control it from different places.
Phew! Now I'm warmed up and ready to go!
Angie
Warm-up questions serve as an excellent way to review and reinforce content learned. To add an external gadget, go to layout on your dashboard then add a gadget from the menu. The list of gadgets include translate, add a link, add a blog group and numerous others. In order to add students as contributors, you need to send them an invitation via email address pasted into the widget. Once they have opened the link and accepted the invitation, they can contribute. Before they become contributors, they must accept the terms and guidelines of blogging in order to be part of the community. For the blog role, paste their url into the blog list widget and save. On a google form (spreadsheet format,) cut and paste their email addresses.
ReplyDeleteFor the creative commons, we went to the site and selected from a list of options such as whether the property can be modified, not modified, used for commercial purposes for profit or not.
Yes, I added as administrator so that I can have access from any site.
1. I think you go to www.widgetbox.com to add external gadgets. Then, html is pasted.
ReplyDelete2. They need to be invited, accept, and labeled as authors or they won't be able to post. The only issue was I got a little confused when classmates appeared as a list, but I still needed to put a comma after each name in order to get everyone in.
3. Invite author to be a contributor on your blog?
4. With a short form and required questions to gather email information.
5.I went to site (from Creative Commons link on Jill's blog) and selected quote of the day. It worked and I chose this one because it was the best fit for the class.
6. Yes. So it doesn't matter if I'm logged into school account or personal account when I want to post or edit.
1) You add an external gadget by choosing entering an external site (Widgetbox.com) or going to your layout page and choosing to edit and then add a widget from blogspot.
ReplyDelete2) To add students as contributors you must invite them to join your blog. We created a form for them to fill out which linked to a spreadsheet when they filled out the form.
3) This step is added on your layout page under contributors. Yes, I added two people and found the errors I incurred were due to not typing in the correct address of the blog and not needing to use http:// before the address.
4) We created a form to collect student email information which linked to a spread sheet (see #2).
5) To add the creative commons gadget enter the creative commons website and choose the option you would like for a copyright. Next, copy the text created and place it in your blog. Yes this worked for me.
6) I only have one account and yes I added it. I believe you want to add your other accounts so you can use them to access your blog.
1. You go to the html/java widget. Then you go to a site with widgiets and copy the html. Finally you go to your blog to check if it worked.
ReplyDelete2. Go to dashboard, settings and add authors. Make sure to add commas between. Make sure you accept invitationsTo add students as contributors you paste their email address to the contributor gadget. I had a problem with copy because my computer was not cooperating and continued to want to paste the previous item I had tried to copy. I did add all the students in this class as contributors.
3. Go into your layout and get the gadget for the blog list. Then go to blog list and copy and paste address for their blog. My problems was that I tried to put http in and it would not work, so I took out http and it worked.
4. To collect student information like email and blog addresses is you create a form and put the information you want. Forms are part of google drive. Embed into post.
5. How to create creative gadget to website is go to the creative common site, pull down license and choose which you want for your site. It will generate the box on bottom of web. I choose could be modified, not for commercial use, can't make money, can attribute me. Creative commons.cc is where you go.
6. I did add all my gmail accounts as admin accounts so I can manage the blog and see it as well as being able to upload from phone. I did not successfully upload from my phone yet, and I still need to get a gmail account that I remember my username and password.