The third challenge for the Blogfest is to learn about embedding widgets. A widget is a third party stand alone application that can be embedded into a web page, such as a blog or social networking home page. According to Wikipedia "Widgets are fun, engaging, and useful applications that allow users to turn personal content into dynamic web apps that can be shared on just about any website"
Here is a widget where I have put in all the places in the world that I have visited. Places I have visited:
create your own visited country map.
The red coloured areas are the countries I have visited and the grey are the areas that are still on the wish list!
There are also widgets that aim just to put a smile on the faces of your blog visitors. See the widget below as an example. This is Maukie the virtual cat. She followes your cursor around the page. Make sure you scratch her head and rub her stomach before you leave (turn your sound up).
Here are a few other examples of widgets I have come across that could be useful in an educational context:
Voki (see an example in the right column)
Flag Counter (have put this one into the side column)
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Thanks for the examples Ali. I still have to think about mine, although like you I have plenty of embeddments already haappening
Was there a reason why you didn't do this post on your me.edu.au blog? Can't you embed things there?
Surprisingly the me.edu.au blog took the world map embed but couldn't handle either of the other widgets, so that's why I had to do it here. That is one thing blogger is very good at :)
It is always so much fun reading your blog; you always seem to have interesting and useful links to good resources.
Thanks for some more great ideas Alison. I especially love the cat widget.
Ali, Thanks for your support. I have been able to adjust the "places visited map" simply by resizing it trough the handles when click on it when you ar in edit mode. It fits nicely within the frame on mine.
You are always a wealth of information Ali. The way you experiment with things is an inspiration. Cheers, Caroline
Hi Ali. Just testing if my avatar will appear now via my google profile as I have uploaded a picture.
Cheers, Caroline
Thanks for your comments everyone - Nick thanks for suggesting to resize the map. I hadn't even given it a thought! It fits nicely now.
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