Friday, September 5, 2008

Post to Twitter and Blog from Posterous


Posting to twitter, blogger and posterous from 1 email message.
Posterous, "blog from your email". Posterous automatically, publishes
attachments in suitable format.
If you haven't tried posterous yet, it's definitely worth checking out!

Posted by email from susan's posterous

Saturday, July 5, 2008

10 Great Tips From Gmail Blog

Official Gmail Blog: Gmail blog turns 1: Looking back at our 10 most read tips

Lots of useful tips in this post on Gmail blog. My personal favorite is number 7, which explains how to create on the fly email addresses using your 1 gmail account - useful for teachers wanting to create fake student accounts and also as an easy way of filtering incoming mail.

10) Have Gmail do your laundry - Suggest new features for Gmail.

9) Tips for importing old email to Gmail -

8) Edit contacts right from your chat list - Clean up your chat list and change contact information quickly

7) 2 Hidden ways to get more from your Gmail address - You can insert certain characters to your email address to get additional names out of it -- all of which still make it to your inbox.

6) How to find any email with Gmail search - How to use search operators so you can find any email the first time.

5) 5 little-known Gmail features you may not yet know about

4) Top 10 little known Gmail features From "custom from" to creating events in Gmail - and other key features

3) Getting Gmail anywhere: IMAP versus POP - How to get Gmail on mobile phones and destkop mail clients

2) 3 Gmail Labs features that will spice up your inbox Popular Gmail Labs features: Superstars, Pictures in chat and Quick Links.

1) 9 reasons to archive -


Saturday, May 3, 2008

Natioanl Geographic Widget

Add the latest news, photos and more from National Geographic by way of widget.

Monday, April 7, 2008

MyStudiyo - Quiz Creator

At MyStudio.com you can create two kinds of quiz, "Promote it Quiz" with your questions, "User Can Add Quiz" your questons and users' questions, you moderate. Or embed an existing quiz in your blog or web page, as I did just below.


Saturday, April 5, 2008

Publishing Google Forms to Blogger Blogs

1) In your blog settings click on the "Email" tab.
2) Fill in the empty field in "mail-to-blogger address" - use something you can remember
3) Check the "Publish emails immediately" radio button - then save settings
4) Go to http://spreadsheets.google.com/newform, sign in
5) Create your form
6) Click on "Save" and "Next, choose recipients"
7) Write the email address for your blog in the "Invite" field
8) Choose any other options that suit you and edit the "Custom Confirmation" text.
9) Click on "Invite People"
The form is automatically published in your blog, and replies collected in a google spreadsheet.










See the form in previous post!


EduTwits

 Just a small demo form         

If you cannot view this form properly, you can fill it out here:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?key=p7zH8U11Pv3_LPqs-Gw7_bg&email=true

Your Name

Where in the world are you?

Your Blog or Website

check for updates

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Sunday, March 23, 2008

Google Form in Your Blog

 Apparently, if your blogger account is set up to accept your posts by mail, you can post a google form directly to your blog.  This is my first attempt - Please answer the questions - not only, in order that I can check if it actually works, but to help my students find out a little about school in other countries.  Thanks in advance.           

If you cannot view this form properly, you can fill it out here:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?key=p7zH8U11Pv38jj7yaY_0HTA&email=true

Where do you live?
Country only

How many days form a school week in your country?

What time does the school day commence?

What time does the school day finish?

How many lesson periods constitute a school day?

Please choose the correct answer

The school described above is

  • an elementary school
  • a middle/junior high school
  • a high school


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