Who’s ready to rock the blogosphere?
Between Friday and Tuesday, we’ll be working together to bedazzle our blogs by adding posts, pages, widgets, and a your choice of interactive media. Before I launch into the NINE (9) items your blog should include by December 5, let me introduce a few more tools that are sure to make you blog crazy!
Be sure to leave your comments and questions. As you do, decide which of these three tools you’d like to embed in one of your future blog posts.
What is the best book you’ve read so far in 6th grade?… at AnswerGarden.ch.
By December 5, you should have the following items on your blog:
(1) An All About Me PAGE. Note this should be a PAGE. If you’d like to also make it your first post, that’s fine. However, you need to have an All About Me PAGE. This page is always visible on the front page of your blog. You’ve already written your All About Me PAGE in Google Docs. Simply copy and paste into a new PAGE. To do so, highlight the entire text of your Google Docs. Hold Control/C to copy. Click the mouse in the text section of the Edublogs PAGE. Hold Control/V to paste. Graphics and fonts may not transfer exactly as they appear in Google Docs.
(2) Your first assigned POST. In the dashboard, open All Posts, Add New. Using the school-themed prompts provided, write your post. Be sure to carefully proofread. Click on Save Draft as you’re working to safeguard your writing. After you’ve thoroughly checked over, made revisions to improve your writing, and changed fonts if desired, click on Review and Submit. It may take Mrs. Rombach 1-3 days to approve and publish. Please be patient. 🙂
(3) Activate ClustrMaps widget. Add to blog sidebar.
(4) Activate Google Supreme Fonts (Dashboard>Plugins>Google Supreme Fonts>Activate).
(5) Create a virtual pet and insert Text widget/embed code to side bar. (see classmate or Mrs. Rombach for help if you missed this in-class project).
(6) Activate Compfight Plugin (Dashboard>Plugins>Compfight>Activate)
(7) Add Categories: Classroom Blogging Assignments, Reading, Writing, Book Reviews, Middle School, and any others you wish.
(8) Add one of the following interactive widgets: Â AnswerGarden, Voki, or Padlet. (click to on each title to connect)
(9) Leave a complimentary comment on three (3) other classmates’ blogs (any block).
