Benefits Of Adding Gadgets To Your Blog

There are so many meaningful and cool gadgets you can add to your blog and there are also many pointless gadgets you could add just for the fun of it.  You can simply add a gadget to your blog by going to your display settings and hitting add a gadget.  Once doing so a list of icons of over thousands of gadgets will pop up and you can pick and choose and decide which you  would like to use.

Since there are so many I was only able to view a few of them. One I added to my blog was configure poll, this gadget allows you to make a poll and for visitors to answer.  This could be helpful if you were wanting to survey a group of people it makes it fast, simple, and easy. 

I also saw many gadgets that would put an inspirational quote on your blog, its just a simple nice thing viewers would enjoy seeing.  I also came across the translate gadget this could be very helpful for people who could not read your post because it is not in a language the understand they could simply highlight the text and translate it with out having to leave your page. There were also many calendar gadgets, just another simple thing viewers would not mind seeing on your blog.  I even saw some gadgets that were allowing you to add games to your blog, why you would need a game on your blog I am not sure, but maybe if your blog was about gaming it would be a neat thing to add.  There are so many gadget you could add. Start exploring! 

Symbaloo

Symbaloo is a website that you can use to bookmark your favorite websites making it easier and simple to go to one.  Start out by making a web mix, a page of icons of the websites you go to often.  You can even use Symbaloo to find web mixes other users have created.  If your into gaming there are various  web mixes full of popular gaming websites.  Say your looking for a good recipe there are many web mixes created for that too as well as many other things like sports, and shoping.  Symbaloo is a great website it makes getting to a website quicker, easier, and more time efficient. 

Create a Symbaloo web mix here!

Voki is an internet tool,  allowing the user to get creative by generating a character and enabling it to say words and phrases of their choice although the saying can not be greater then 90 seconds.  You can choose from many characters; human, animals, smiley faces, and even monsters.  You can also edit their colors, facial features, and their background.  Other then being able to edit their look you also have endless choices for creating what your character is going to say.  You could type what ever you want them to say.  The website also enables you to change your speaker, and their accent.  You could even record your own voice if you wanted too!  The choices are endless this is a great tool anyone could use to put on their blog or website!

To make a Voki click here!

How I Utilize The Ineternet.

I spend most of my time while on the internet searching homework questions on the google search engine.

• The Google Search Engine allows a user to type in a word or phrase in the search bar that you would like to find on the internet or be informed about.  This makes finding information very easy! Visit Google here!
  

Other websites I love to visit our Youtube and Facebook both our social media websites.

• Youtube allows a user to post a video and watch others video post.  You can find an assortment of videos on youtube anything from music, nature, sporting events, clips of televisions shows or movies, to videos like Mr. Methane; a man embarrassing himself and the rest of man kind. Visit YouTube here!

• Facebook allows users to connect with other users allowing them to share videos, pictures, and post with other users.  Facebook also allows a user to chat one on one with a friend, or a group in a chat bar. Visit Facebook here!
  

Practice Blog Post

Web Tool

• Description
• Features
• Benefits
• Picture
• Link
• How can a person use this tool, how will I use this tool.

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Day 2

Today I explored blogs and am making my first blog post.