Thursday, January 31, 2013

Backgrounds

Hi everyone!  We recently learned how to change our background on our blog!  This can make your blog fun and exciting!  I love changing my blog background to make it fit my personal style!

This website is my favorite and the most user friendly!  It's called, thecutestblogontheblock.  This website provides you with a LOT of different backgrounds, so you can add some personal style.


To change your background, you copy the link to the background of your choice, and copy it into the HTML/JavaScript gadget.  This then changes your blog background!  I hope you finda  background that suits you!

Here are some great websites for changing your background!
The Cutest Blog On The Block
Shabby Blogs
Simply Blog It Backgrounds
Dotty Dot Dot Design
 

Personas

Hello everyone!   Last class, we learned about a new tool called Firefox Persona's!  This website let's us personalize our Firefox browser window.  This helps bring a little pizazz to your browser and makes it even more fun to use!


This website is user friendly!  So if you don't have an idea of a persona, it makes it easy to browse to find one that appeals to you.  Below,  the picture shows just SOME of the topics there are.  As you can see there are over 35,000 topics to help you discover more persona's! That's fantastic!
If you don't know what you are looking for, Firefox Persona's has a search bar to search for your topic.  This is very convenient and helps find the right one!  I encourage you to try this website!  Have fun!!
 

Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Blogging on the iPad

Hello everyone! Today in class, we learned about the Blogger App. There are a few differences between the app and the web version. When using the app, I find it is easier to make a post because all you have to do is click once and a window pops up. When using the app, you can't view your gadgets, you have to click of the web version in order to see them and use them. If you have more than one blog, the app makes it very simple to switch what blog you are using.
Below is a picture of the app showing my blog.


I encourage you to try the app and the website to see which one you prefer! Enjoy!

Friday, January 18, 2013

Symbaloo

Hey Ya'll! In the past few days, our teacher showed us a website called Symbaloo.  Symbaloo is a Social Bookmarking Website. A Social Bookmarking Website is a website that helps you create a shortcut and share different websites you have found or use regularly. This is a very helpful website and can make your internet use a lot easier.

Symbaloo consists of different tiles that make a shortcut to your most used or favorite websites.    First you make an account and then you make a page.  On that page you begin making your tiles.    
The picture below is of my personal Symbaloo featuring my web tools.



On Symbaloo, you can create as many tabs as you want.  I have created two of them.  The one above is for my school use.  The one below is of my personal use.  It contains websites like Facebook, Zappos, and Pandora.  These are the websites that I use most.


First create an account.  Once you do that, you click the plus sign and it creates a webmix.

After your webmix is created, you then click on a tile and search for a website you want to put. After you search for your tile, an icon will come up and you click on it and add it to your webmix.


If your tile doesn't show up, the you click 'Create you own tile.' You then follow the instructions and it will add it to your webmix.


Using Symbaloo can help make your web surfing easier.  If you want to discover more websites, you can go back up to the search bar and search a topic and learn if anyone has made a webmix about that topic.  Then if you find one, you can view it and add it as a webmix.

Click Here to create your Symbaloo!

Monday, January 14, 2013

Blogger Gadgets


Hi everyone! Here are 5 great gadgets to include on your blog.  I encourage to explore these and many others! Enjoy!

  1. This gadget is the number of visits you have to your page.  It is very handy to use, and easy to use.  All you have to do is insert it on your blog and when someone visits your page, it updates the numbers.  I encourage you to use this gadget!


2. The next gadget is the Puppy of the Day.  This is a fun and cute gadget to entertain your visitors.  If you like puppies I strongly suggest this gadget! The gadget shows a different picture of a puppy every few minutes.  This is a fun gadget!                                                                                                 

3. This gadget is Inspirational Quotes.  This gadget shows inspirational quotes every few minutes.  This is a great gadget for your visitors to find wisdom or inspiration from.  This gadget is very neat.















4. This gadget is an Educational Quotes gadget.  This gadget is perfect for teachers to encourage their pupils to stay in school.  This gadget shows a different educational quote.  I think this is great and very inspirational.



5. Lastly, this is the Harry Potter Spells. This gadget displays different Harry Potter Spells for those Harry Potter fanatics.  This gadget is great for adding a little pizazz to your page.  I encourage you to try it!

Blog Stats

As of Monday, January 14th, 2013, I have 43 views on my blog.  All of my views are from the United States.  The majority of my views are on the browser Safari.  They are leading with a 62%, and the most used operating systems are by Macintosh.  Macintosh is leading with a 79%.  Many people are arriving to my blog through rogan2b2013.blogspot.com.  Thank you Rogan!