(Aussie, Aussie, Aussie oi!oi!oi!)
For the weekly “day in a sentence”, we will experiment using
· a voicethread respsonse and/or
· the usual text reply via a comment on this post.
I am priveleged to host this activity for the week, so thank you for joining in.
You will need a VoiceThread account to use this platform. It is easy to get one and is a great way to experiment with one of the most popular applications on the Web right now. Either follow the link to sign up on this VoiceThread or head to http://voicethread.com/ Make sure you apply for the free educational version if you are a teacher.
If you want to add your sentence, but you would rather not use VoiceThread, you can add it to the comment link on this post. Please introduce yourself, first, and then tell us about your day in one sentence.
(Instructions are below for adding to the thread)
User Instructions To add voice: press record>allow and then wait to see the recording text come up>talk your sentence>stop recording. Wait a few seconds and it will automatically play back your recording. If unhappy, click cancel and commence recording again. When satisfied, click save. Even when it is saved, You can delete your recording by clicking on your image and selecting the rubbish bin in the bottom right hand corner. Any problems or queries, contact me (via a comment on this post) or check out my contact details or Kevin. Thanks Kevin, for letting me be host for the week!!We look forward to hearing you, and your day’s experiences.
As I have several (acually, too many!!) blog sites, I wanted to put in place a widget box or link that would allow people to search for posts, topics or themes throughout my blogs, delicious, twitter etc, so lijit looked a distinct possibility. (eg you may wish to search for any mention of all that I have made online about skype). However, wordpress is fussy about code and the code that I embedded did not give me an attractive search box, just a boring almost non-visible text link. That was disappointing. However, I left the boring text link there and was surprised to see that Barney who must be one of the software producers for lijit emailed me for an evaluation of the link. After voicing my disappointment and contacting wordpress as to the reasons for failing to embed the lijit code, lijit worked further on the code and personalized a badge for me which now sits proudly on my globalteacher blog site. (Wordpress blocks javascript.)
To make it easy for readers to navigate all your online sites and to find topics of interest, consider including a personal search engine widget.
Instructions
To add the search widget (the one of your choice), register for a username and password. Activate your account through the resultant email. Return to site, copy the given code for wordpress, or choose the one appropriate to your blog. Return to your wordpress presentation tab, choose widgets, add a text widget to your sidebar (drop and drag the extra text option into the sidebar and place in position of your choice.), Click on the configure button in the top RH corner,>paste the code into the pop up window. Save > view site and a link to the search engine (in my case lijit) should be present. If it’s appearance does not look correct, contact me or the site from whom you got the code and they may have to modify it. Wonderful statistics and weekly feedback is also given. However there are other web2.0 sites who offer this search facility so choose one to suit you.
