Thursday, July 15, 2010


creating pages on your blogs

picassa
importing a slideshow onto your blog.
sign on to your gmail account
in a new tab, go to google.com
go t the pull down menu and choose “photo” – this will take you directly to picassa
you should be able to access picassa with only your gmail password
create an album and start uploading some images
once you have your images/ album on picassa, see if you can import the slideshow on your blog

very basic html
browser – view, source code
what you need:  simple editor like notepad, a browser
open notepad and let’s get started


Look through the links below for background color and font size, type and color. 
useful links for html:


sitemeter
tracking visits to your site
go to sitemeter.com and sign up for free
once you have signed up, go to the “manage” tab
at this site you will find detailed instructions as to how to attach sitemeter to your blogger blogs:  http://sitemeter.com/?a=manager&area=htmlcode&page=bloggerbeta
once you have copied and pasted the html code for your sitemeter account, go to your blog, click on “design” and then go to the bottom of the edit screen.  Clock on a gadget and then choose the gadget for html. Paste the sitemeter html code. 

glogster
“Poster yourself.” Make your interactive poster easily and share it with friends. Mix images, text, music and video.  http://edu.glogster.com/
glogster for educators: 
G-Lab
glog name bar
save and publish
click on “text” on left hand side
add images
add videos
look at other educational glogs:  http://edu.glogster.com/categories/
sharing glogs – email, post, bookmark