After a very busy week it is nice to catch up with my online world. Normally I read new posts daily but this week got the better of me. Reading webomatica’s My Blogging Reality Check reminded me that ToonDoo had made my Blog, Wikis and Podcasts comic had made Editor’s pick this week. This comic explains why I blog (although would be nice to be rich and famous – but that is not going to happen). So I thought I…
Darren at Drape’s Take did an excellent post today on Why Every Teacher Should Have A Google Account. This is a list of basic tools that I recommend to lecturers: Bookmarking Definitely a bookmarking site is a must. It is so great to be able to bookmark a website online that you can then view from any computer. I just love the fact that where ever I am I can go yes I remember reading an article on a particular…
Absolutely unbelievable. First my son Liam’s ToonDoo comic is more popular than mine (238 views as well as making Editor’s pick) and now my husband, who has only posted once on his site, “The blog of a technology widower” has been written about on another person’s site. What can I say, speechless, luckily I can still type! Letting it all go…..Gabriella after reading my post on ToonDoo checked it out and obviously had some fun as she made her own…
Unbelievable! All I can say is never work with kids. To encourage Liam to create comics using ToonDo I said I would post his comic on my blog and I even warned people to be nice as he is only 8. As it is his first adventure into making his own comics online today he was keen to see how many views his comic has had. Prior to this ToonDude had sent me an email letting me know that one…
Yesterday, I checked out ToonDoo and created my first comic. Unfortunately I had a bit of a problem embedding it into my Edublog blog so the nice people from ToonDoo helped me out. Here are my instructions on how to do it so you can also enjoy the benefits of adding ToonDoo comics to your edublog blog. Step 1: Click on the embed swf icon. Step 2: Insert the following code into the swf popup box but make sure you…
Yes, perhaps it may look like I have too much time on my hands but I am on holiday so decided to catch up on reading other people blogs. Over the last few weeks I have kept coming across people inserting cartoons in their blogs but had not paid it much attention until I went back and re-read What are holidays for anyway? (Obviously I am not the only who catches up on things during weeks off). So I followed…