Google Translate & Your Blog

Did you know you can add a simple button to your blog that will make a world of difference to our international students and their parents?  Here's how.

Go to your blog settings by clicking on 'Design' at the top of your blog.

Click on 'Layout' on the left side column.

Click on 'Add a Gadget' in whichever area you wish your gadget to appear.

Scroll through the options until you find 'Translate'  (This is a good time to remind you to add 'Follow by Email' if you haven't yet, so that your parents can receive emails when you post on your blog - it's in the same list)

Choose 'Translate' and then decide which of the three options you want on your blog.  You can go back and change this later if you prefer a different look.  Then click 'Save'.

Click 'Save arrangement' on the top of the Layout screen.

This is what it will look like on your blog home page.

And this is what it will look like when you click on your chosen language.  It's magic!  

Global Awareness via Snapchat Life Stories

Global Awareness via Snapchat Life Stories
Snapchat is a social media app that can be used for good or not so good.
This is one of the great things about snapchat that I personally have been enjoying.
Trips around the world in 3 minutes or less.

Turn your blog into a book

Here's one way of how to turn your blog into a book.

http://www.theedublogger.com/2015/06/01/turning-your-edublog-into-a-book/

Authentic Audience

Today our class blog received a comment from one of the children's grandparents in South Africa!  It is exciting to see family members around the world reading about and seeing pictures and videos of what we are doing in our classroom.  http://room3twentyfifteen.blogspot.co.nz/2015/06/michelangelo-art.html 

A Year 3 class in our school has created a buddy blog with a class in Australia.  They have each posted their first posts.  It is very exciting to see how the teachers and children are able to use blogger to share learning outside of their own classroom walls.
http://ourfriendsacrosstheditch.blogspot.co.nz/