Blogger's Gadgets!

There are many different types of gadgets that you can add to your blog! Most are beneficial, but some are entertaining and just neat to look at. Some of the types of gadgets include entertainment, news, quotes, calendars, tips, virtual pets or people, educational, religious, daily posts, you can add text or images, and many, many more! 

Here are the steps to adding a gadget!

1) Click on "design" in the upper right corner of your blog page

2) Click on layout near the bottom of the list on the left hand side of the page. (it will show the layout of your page)

3) Click on add a gadget!

 Here are some of the gadgets I added to my blog and a brief description to each!

Newsreel

The Newsreel gadget shows you the latest

news on Google, and has a link to the Web 

page that the update is about to make searching 

for things quick and easy! It also looks nice on a

blog since many people use the internet to read 

the news.

Search This Blog

Search This Blog is used to make searching

for things on a blog easy, so you don't have

to scroll through every single blog post until

you find the one you were looking for. It is 

very beneficial to people who make many blog

posts, because it makes it easier to search for 

certain posts!

Translate

The gadget, Translate, can be very beneficial

for bloggers, considering the fact that people 

all over the world can read your blog! Translate

lets you pick what language people use to read 

your blog, since not everyone reads English.

Total Pageviews

Total Pageviews gadget is nice because you can 

see how many people have viewed your blog. It 

may be beneficial to some, but others may just 

want to use it to see how many people view their 

blog.

Fish

Fish is a gadget that is for entertainment and 

eye catching purposes! You can feed the fish 

by clicking in the box that the fish are 

swimming in. You can watch the colorful

fish swim around!

Thank you for reading, I hope you have fun exploring all of the gadgets!

Symbaloo

Today in class we explored the Web site Symbaloo. It is a site used to book mark your favorite Web sites and pages so you don't have to take the time to type it in every time you want to visit some where! You can add up to 52 book marks per page. The pages are called Webmixes. You can even customize your background and change the icons! Creating an account is very
easy to do, all you need is an email! You can follow
people and share their Webmixes also.

I think Symbaloo is a very useful Web tool! It isn't complex either, so really anyone could figure out how to use it. It could be very helpful to people who are vey busy and use certain cites a lot, or people who don't like taking the time to type in web addresses. Or say if you won't remember what a Web site you really liked is called, then you can bookmark it using Symbaloo and you won't have to remember it!

Thanks for reading, and now you can go check out Symbaloo!

Exploring Voki

We explored a Web site called Voki! Voki is a Web site where you
can create customized avatars to send to people, or use for your blogs. You can give them different voices with different accents and in different languages! Some of them do cost money, however most of them don't.  There are many types of avatars, from animals to aliens, to chose from!

I think Voki is a fun Web site that can be very useful! You could send a family member a greetings, or to cheer a friend up with a message. It's very easy to use as well! You can check out my Voki to the right of the screen! Click here to check out Voki!

How I Use the Internet

I use the internet mainly for social media purposes such as Twitter and Instagram. I also use Google to search for cheer related things:  how to better your jumps and stretches, different types of bows, spiriting, etc. I use my smart phone for all internet uses.


Twitter is a social media Website where you can follow people and groups to keep updated on things you like. You can also follow friends and family to keep updated on activities in their lives.







The social media Website, Instagram, is the same as Twitter, but with pictures. You can add effects and crop your pictures.You can also upload short videos, and what is called a "Flipagram." You have followers, and can follow people as well!









I don't go to specific Websites for anything in particular, I do use Google a lot when I need to search something quickly, like the weather, or if I want to know something.

You can check out these sites here:

www.twitter.com
www.instagram.com
www.google.com

Website/Tool Name

What to include on my blog post!

Describe website tool.

• Benefits
• Website
• Features
• Picture
• Opinion
• How you and your readers can use the tool
  
  
• Link

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Day Two

Welcome to my blog, this is my first blog post!