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1.Add pages to
your blog
Blogs can look like websites
with their different pages
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You can have 24 pages on a Blogger blog
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This shows the pages
on an Edublogs blog
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2. Join your own blog
and get the ball rolling
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Join our blog
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3. Get your ‘About me’ page
up to date
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Even if you decide
to keep your
location private try
and say something
interesting about
yourself.
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4. Add an attractive header
to your blog
This just gives your blog a nice feel!
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Add ‘widgets’ to your blog’
The next group are known as
‘widgets’. Widgets are the little
side items one puts on a blog
to make it more interesting
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5. Add a welcoming Voki
to your blog
This is a speaking
avatar and it really
adds spice to a blog
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6. Get a ‘clustr map’
It is very exciting to see the world map
fill up as other teachers come across
your blog
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7. Get a live traffic feed
on your blog
This will show you
which town is
visiting your blog at
this moment. Very
exciting!
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8. Adopt a pet for
your blog
If you have a
classroom blog your
class will love to
have a pet!
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9.Add a ‘Google translate’
gadget
This means that foreigners visiting
your blog can translate it into their
language
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10.Add a Twitter feed to
your blog
You can keep track
of your tweets on
your blog!
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11.Add your curriculum
down the side of your
blog
It is always
interesting for the
parents to see what
the class is doing in
a term
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12.Add a bookshelf to your blog
Find the books you and your class
have read and add them to a Shelfari
bookshelf widget
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13.Add a blog roll of your
favourite blogs
Visit other blogs you like to look at
regularly easily
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14.Add a blogroll of the
students in your class
If you decide that
your class should
each have their own
blog as many
teachers do, add the
link at the side of
your blog
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Turn your blog into a book at the
end of the year
Keep those memories forever!
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Price list for the various types of books
http://www.blurb.com/create/book/blogbook