For Tech Camp…
Adding text to your widget sidebars is fairly simple. You can also format it using html tags.
- From dashboard>design>widgets, choose to add a text widget to your sidebar.
- Click “edit.”
- Add a title for the text widget if you choose, such as “Disclaimer” or “Welcome.” It all depends on the content you want to add.
- Add your text into the box and double-check.
- To format text, you can put it between html tags.
Example html tags
BOLD: <b>this is an example</b>
UNDERLINE: <u>this is an example</u>
ITALIC: <i>this is an example</i>
CENTER: <p align=”center”>add your text here</p>
Using more than one tag requires that you nest tags. For example, centered and bold would look like this:
<p align=”center”><b>this is an example</b></p>
Other html tags you might want to know:
paragraph: <p></p>
break or return: <br>
link: <a href=”http://…”>link name</a>
link that opens in new window: <a href=”http://…” target=”_blank”>link name</a>
image: <img src=”http://…”>
image link: <a href=”http://url to link to”><img src=”http://url of image”></a>
More html help is available at Quackit.
I discovered this site a while ago, and had only mentioned to our CLUE teachers as I thought this would be a great addition to one of their annual projects. Today, during Wanda Woodruff’s podcasting session at Tech Camp, I thought about this great website again.
Meetmeatthecorner.org is a site for students to view virtual field trips and/or upload their own video virtual field trips. The site states their purpose as this:
MEET ME AT THE CORNER, Virtual Field Trips for Kids, is a dynamic, interactive site, which encourages individual expression and participation through video submissions from children worldwide. Through these video pod casts we hope to create a community of children, who learn the art of self-expression and storytelling through video.
In the beginning, the video pod casts highlighted the people, events and history of New York City. As this site grows through children’s submissions, we hope to highlight the people and events of other towns, cities and nations. To date we have video podcasts from California, Colorado, North Carolina, Texas, and Maryland. We are always open to the people and events in your corner of the world.
There are so many possibilities here, as Memphis has so much interesting landmarks and history. Consider using this as part of a project. Notice, no one from Tennessee has participated yet.
