Other Information

General information

1.Your layout (skin/template) may look differently on your home computer compared to your work computer. i.e. the colors may be slightly different, patterns may disappear, symbols "built-in" in the template may not show.

2. Be sure and check the SETTINGS for the time zone when you set up your blog. CST is not the default!

3. You are welcome to comment to the various Things in this Blog 23 Things @ TTU, but you are not an official player until you post in and register YOUR own blog as outlined in Thing #4. You will receive an official welcome email to know that you are registered.

4. Be sure you understand the difference between a blog address:http://[yourcreatedportion.blogspot.com/] and a blog title found in the header on the Page Elements screen.

5. Your Id within your blog (as opposed to the blog's id) appears at the end of each of your posts. You choose it...it can be your real name, a made-up name or moniker, or even the same as your blog title.

6. You can change your blog's title; you can change your ID (who/what you are known as); you can NOT change your blog's address!(Please try very hard not to change your Id or your blog's title for the duration of this activity.)

FAQs

Behind the Scenes of Setting Up Your Blog PPT

My blog title is missing. How do I make it show?
1. Go to your dashboard and click on Layout.
2. If you do not have a long box that either has your title in it or the word "Header" then you need to click on Add a Page Element.
3. In Add a Page Element, select the Header. Your title may automatically show or you may need to type it thru the edit button.

I can't get my avatar into my blog.
1.Go into the Dashboard.
2.Click the Layout (used to be called template) tab.
3.Click on Add a Gadget.
4.Select the one that says HTML...you can give it a title or not (optional).
5.Copy the HTML code that was on the avatar home page (probably in a box.)Be sure and save!

Here are some screen shots that should help with adding the avatar.

You can add any type of html code in this gadget & the gadget CAN be used more than once.

Ideas for the NEXT 23 things!
Voice Thread
Second Life
Gaming
Webinars
Twitter
Twhirl
Ustream
Skype
Commenting on others' blog postings
Posting results of your creative work in you blog
Widgets
Digg
Edutagger
Feedjit
Alt Search Engines
AnyTV
Muxtape (Library)
TubeSock
slideshare - storage option
animoto - i have an idea!
tags/tagging - anything, but as way to find things...why delicious works!
Glogster
WoW - Women on the web
Wikipedia (searching [Powerset] and creating or editing articles)
http://wordle.net/
embedding http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/1340000334/post/140028614.html?nid=3714
http://mnemograph.com/