Fresh, New Look for Summer

I can't believe I did this!

I've never really liked the standard templates at Blogger, but figured I had no other choice since I don't know HTML. However, I recently ran across an article on Mashable about new templates just for Blogger. I find them to be interesting and exciting, but still...

I've been playing around with this template, Plantilla Blogy-O2, from Blog and Web, for the past few days using a blog that I have here at Blogger, but haven't used in quite some time. I couldn't do everything I wanted to do, but I'm liking the way it looks.

Overall, the only real area of difficulty was the header. I ended up deleting the image that was there and added in a new image created using Twitlogo. I used the advanced settings to match the color in the background and made it shrink to fit in the Blogger settings when I uploaded it.

So, what do you think?

Part 2: Searching for Social Bookmarking

Even though I haven't written about social bookmarking sites in awhile, I have continued to look at options available. As you might remember, I face a dilemma in that I want students to collaborate on projects in part by sharing resources. One way to do that would be to use Diigo or Delicious, but both of those services are blocked by district filters at my site. I favor Google Notebook, but production stopped on that months ago so new accounts aren't being accepted.

Over the weekend I started playing with Zoho Notebook.



Last night I created this notebook about the new service thisMoment, in about 5 minutes. Go ahead and click on page one above to view the page in the notebook. I referenced the article from Mashable, the home page for thisMoment, and a sample. I then quickly added some text about general ideas for classroom use. Within the program, there is an easy to use navigation bar on the left hand side and at the top of your work area. I can click one button to enter email addresses of people with whom I would like to share my notebook AND I can give them either Read Only or Read/Write privileges. Further niftiness allowed me to publish and embed my notebook here.

I am liking Zoho Notebook, but now need to check to make sure it's not blocked at my site.