Not content with bringing you funky ways to upload and present your files, Edublogs now also allows you to share those files - be they course notes, worksheets, favourite songs or great big image files - using a very funky Box.net widget.
How does it work? Just go to your Presentation tab, click on Sidebar Widgets and drag and drop the Box.net file sharing widget into a sidebar.
Then click on the little configure icon (on the widget) and take it from there.
Couldn’t be easier huh… are we becoming your one stop online teaching and learning shop… or wot :)
10 responses so far ↓
I cannot wait to start using this widget. You guys ARE becoming my one stop online teaching and learning shop.
Very, very cool James. Your service is becoming a more essential, more important part of my classroom all the time. Thanks for all the time and energy you are putting into this “little hobby.”
Clarence
Been waiting for something like this, but have already come across a small problem. I have a few blogs, and would like different files shown on each blog. I tried to get code from Box.net, but seems to be different from the code used in the edublogs plugin. Anyone found a way to show different files on each blog?
Great idea! I started experimenting with this widget and have put a couple of files on it…now the question is, how do I remove them?
That’ll be something to look at on Box.net - all it’s basically doing is installing your setup from there.
I think that you’ll need different Box accounts for each different blog - just use a few diff email addresses :)
Am sure that Box will continue to improve too - and we’ll be tapping into all of that.
James,
Wicked!! I’ve put it on! Great place to put those forms for parents and students to access easily. See how I’ve used it here: http://msrich.edublogs.org/
My blog is becoming very functional now. Soon, it will be a place where parents MUST go to get stuff they NEED. Keep up the great work, James, you are a blessing.
You are doing a wonderful job in blogging. I am using blogs for my class to discuss Trends & issues in educational technology.
Students can communicate and discuss better with blogs and understands by creating their blogs.
Dr. Najmi, AUST, UAE
Hmmm- I use box.net widgets with a Blogger blog. Over there, each file folder can have a separate widget which can be embedded directly into a blog or site. No matter what I try I can’t get the widget codes box.net generates to work here. I just get an empty box widget every time. I really want to recommend edublogs for my school so can anyone help me here?
That should be completely possible with this - it’s exactly the same functionality.
First, thanks for the mention James!
Secondly, to answer saddison, to have separate files/widgets for separate blogs/pages, make different folders for each set you want, on box.net. On each folder, right-click and select “Get a widget”, that code will be separate for each folder, and you can copy that for each widget.
I dont know that the wordpress plug-in will allow more than one, however, if you can only drag the widget once.
-Aaron
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