Amber’s Blog

This week I added an audio reader to my blog. It was fairly simple to set up the second time. The first audio reader I tried to set up did not work very well because I had tried to set it up on my advisors blog which did not have any posts for the audio reader to read.

I was unable to learn how to make a table however since I was out sick for the remainder of the week so I will need to catch up when I get back to school on Tuesday.

This week, I was able to give all of the book club members edublogs usernames. They need to log in so that I can add them as users.

This coming week, I am going to add them as users and also put a text reader and audio reader.

I am also going to add a discussion page that is going to be a forumn.

This week I wasn’t able to get much done because of AP testing. I was not in school on Monday because of an illness and then not in school on Tuesday for my AP Chemistry test.

I was able to meet with my advisor this week and she really likes the website. We decided on some ideas to add to the site which I am planning on completing this coming week. She really likes the site and all of the things I have done so far.

I have some work ahead of me with this website but it is coming alone. The actual website portion is almost done and now I have to work on tutorials and discussion things.

This week, I met with my advisor and made some changes to the site. We added more text to the front page and decided on more things that I can do this coming week. I am going to add a Voki to the front page and a discussion page. I also emailed all of the members of the book club and told them what I was going to make their usernames.

Make sure to look at the front page of the blog. It is more colorful and easier to read.

Next, I plan on working on adding a Voki and adding a discussion page. The discussion page is going to be where questions can be asked and students can respond. I am also going to make usernames for all of the members of the book club so we can start blogging.

My to-do list:

• Resize the picture
• Figure out a way to make the discussion page a forumn

This project is really coming along.

This week I learned how to put a google calendar onto my blog. I also learned how to add images and how to place things in a text box.

This week was very productive. I was able to place widgets in my blog and learn about how to add things to my blog to enhance the blog.

I enjoy learning new things to place in my blog and they are really helping to enhance my blog and the blog for my advisor.

This week I worked on adding more things to my blog. I added a google calendar and pictures of the cover of the book to the front page. I also worked on making the blog more usable and easier to navigate.

Make sure you look at the google calendar. I edited it to make sure that it fit within the parameters of the page and I also added dates to the blog.

Next, I plan to email the members of the book club and set them up with usernames. I am going to add them as contruibuters.

My current to-do list for the blog is:

• add the members as contributors
• place the blog on the media center and foran website
• center the picture and make the site more usable

I like this project. I feel like I am really accomplishing something with this project.

This week we learned a lot of new things that can enhance our blog. I learned how to make a text only reader on my blog and I started corresponding more with my advisor to create the blog for the book club.

The text only reader that I put into my blog will help people with disabilities. If they need to have a screen reader then the text only option really helps. The text only also really easy to add to my blog. It didn’t need a lot of HTML code and there was a program that I could plug what I wanted into.

This week I also set up the book club’s blog. I used the mandigo theme because I can change the header. I made this headera stack of classic books. I also set up the columns and added different aspects into the columns.