Bling Your Blog

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  WELCOME to my BLOG!  I have divided my class into three areas!  Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced

In the beginning, you are getting yourself organized, and making sure that it is easy to follow.  In this section you will find tutorials to help you:  add media, keep parents involved, create a static home page, adding links to images, organizing categories, learn what G Cast is,  & discover the Text Widget!

Next, is the intermediate section, prevously called “crackle”!   THis is where you are like a designer, you are making yourself a masterpiece.  It is all about making your blog UNIQUE to you and your class!  No two blogs need to be alike.  Widgets do exactly that!   In this section you will find tutorials on:  Embedding in general, embedding documents and Power Points, create Polls, Google Docs, ading fun widgets, adding showcase widgets, & discover what an avatar is. 

Finally, you want your BLOG to not only WOW everyone, but POP!  How can you do that?   YOUR STUDENTS do that!  Student Participation in your blog is the KEY to many open doors!  This will get your students and their families involved in your blog!  You will be amazed at how tech savvy your students are and what they can create with the right tools!  Giving them the opportunity to EXPRESS themselves in a variety of ways is so important.  In the POP section you will find tutorials on:  Embedding video from You Tube & Weber Tube, VoiceTHread, Games, Smilebox, Bookr, Animoto, Sketchcast, and adding custom header.