Blog+add+ons+and+wigits

[|Slide Shows] for your blog. This is a FREE platform and easy to embed into blog. An alternative to movies/photos on your blog.

[|RockYou slideshows] an easy way to create unique sideshows that can be embedded into your blog. Here is an example of how I have used it [|Sharon's blog]

[|Mixbook] is an Online book that can be embedded into a blog. It is another great way to share info, tell a story or showcase photos with text. [|Here is one I made]

[|Blog Counters] FREE tool to keep track of how many visitors to your blog.

[|Cluster Map] - To show what country visitors are coming from on your blog.

[|Feedjit] - Live traffic feed - Able to track where your visitors find your blog and when.

[|Copyright FREE music] - Use if you are adding music to any video/movie that you make for your blog.

[|A clock for your blog] - interesting if you having blogging buddies in another country and can have there time and your time on blog

[|Glogster] - Use glogster to create "posters" that can be embedded into any web page - can add pictures, links, video etc

Voicethread To get a completely free educator account that allows you to make up to 50 VoiceThreads, start from this address: [] Choose the VT Educator option and complete the steps (the apply button appears to be grayed out but it still works). Voicethread Using this tool you can:
 * Create an online media album that can hold essentially any type of media (images, documents and videos)
 * Make comments about the media in 5 different ways - using voice (with a microphone or telephone), text, audio file, or video (with a webcam).
 * Share a Voicethread with anyone so that they add comments to your Voicethread or are even able to edit the media as a collaborator.
 * Use the Doodle tool to draw on the media as you add a comment to illustrate your point.
 * You can download a VoiceThread as a movie file (but this costs if you don't have an educator account)
 * You can embed your VoiceThread into online spaces.

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