Blogging by Pupils There are many ways you can use a blog. Here we are considering a blog where pupils post as part of their learning. A static website involves a fair bit of work and distances learners from the publishing process. Weblogs allow learners to become more directly involved in the publishing process without delving into … Continue reading Starting Blogging in the Classroom
Web accessibility … is the inclusive practice of ensuring there are no barriers that prevent interaction with, or access to, websites on the World Wide Web by people with physical disabilities, situational disabilities, and socio-economic restrictions on bandwidth and speed. When sites are correctly designed, developed and edited, more users have equal access to information … Continue reading Accessibility
Glow Blogs has had another update. Here are some highlights Use H5P content on other blogs via shortcode You can now allow your hp5 interactive content to be used on other Glow Blogs. See the H5P example blog Sharing page for details. Plugin Copy Posts This post allows you to create template posts that can … Continue reading Glow Blogs Update April 2022
YouTube Embed Plugin. Embed a YouTube channel gallery, playlist gallery, YouTube live stream. Lite embeds with defer JavaScript and facade options. This will allow you a bit more power than the standard YouTube embed in Glow Blogs. If you just need to add a video to a post or page it may be simper to … Continue reading Embed Plus for YouTube
Block Editor introduced 26 Aug 2021 19 Aug 2023 the block editor has matured and been upgraded since we activated it on Glow Blogs. We would advise considering activating the new editor. It is quite different so it is a good idea to try it out. This is a very different editor from the Classic … Continue reading The Block Editor
Draw Attention Pro is a plugin for creating interactive images. Here is a simple example: WE have some more examples on the Draw Attention Glow Blog. These images can be used for all sort of things, here are a few examples: Count down to Safer Internet Day 2021 An Advent Calendar Not pretty, … Continue reading Draw Attention Pro
It is very easy to publish a podcast episode using Glow Blogs from a mobile device. This screencast shows how to with Voice Memos on an iPad. You can do exactly the same on an iPhone and other mobile devices will have similar workflows. There is more information on podcasting using Glow Blogs on Glowcast … Continue reading Mobile Podcasting
Sometimes you want to clear up old posts and media on your blog to save space or because content is no longer relevant. This can be confusing. Deleting posts does not save any file space at all. Text in posts and pages is kept in the database and not the file space your blog is … Continue reading Reclaiming Space on your blog.
Sticky Posts are posts that will stick to the top of your front page. The video starts with using sticky posts in the TwentyFourteen theme and then shows the simpler method used in other themes.
Glow blogs, like the rest of Glow, uses RM Unify for authentication and logging in. This an make the job of posting involve quite a few steps before you get to the post screen. You can speed this up considerably by bookmarking the New Post Page of your site. Opening this bookmark will take you … Continue reading Quickly Posting
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