Developing your PLN

Virtual Learning Network 

NZ Educational 'Twits' to follow

Educational Hashtags to follow

Blogger

Migrate Blog from Wordpress to Blogger

Import and Export Blogs

1. Set up your Blogger blog, if you don't have one already

2. Back up your blogger blog.  If you haven't created any posts yets, skip this step

• On your Blogger page select "Design"
• Select the "Settings" tab in the left-hand sidebar
• Click "Other" at the bottom of the list of options.  
• Look for the Heading towards the top of the page "Blog Tools"
• Click on "Export Blog"
• Click on "Download blog"
• Save the file in a folder on your hard drive.

3. Go over to Wordpress and open the dashboard (my blog>blog admin)

4. Select Tools>export 

           Select options that relate to what you want to export

5. This will download a file - take note of the file name

6. Use this program to convert the file to a xml file Wordpress2Blogger Converter

• This will download another file - note the name of this file so you can search for it when prompted

6. Go back over to blogger>settings>other>import blog

7. Follow instructions (you may need to search for the xml file when prompted)

8. Import Blog - imported posts will be merged with any current posts, sorted by date.

Blog Widgets

Create and embed to your blog using the HTML code.

Clustr Maps

See where your traffic comes from using your blog URL address.

Live Traffic Feed

See where your traffic comes from and what pages specifically they are reading.

Select the free option.

Chrome App

Tab Cloud

Do you often have multiple windows open when working on a project, then need to do something so you leave the window open for days, when you are ready to come back to it? Tab cloud allows you to save any window session and restore it at a later date.  As this is on Chrome, you can open this saved session on any computer you are signed into.

Organising Drive

Today we looked at organising folders in Drive.

To organise find the drop down menu beside the folder you want to edit.
Here you can:

• Change the colour of the icon
• Share whole folder with other people
• Move folder somewhere else (move to)
• Rename folders
• Remove (delete folder)

Backing up computer files to Google Drive - Mac Only at this stage

Download Google Drive - you can also access your documents when you are not online.  You can work on these and when you come back online, the document will synch.

To sync files from your mac to google drive - install MacDropAny.

Follow the set-up instructions and sync the files you want to have in your google drive.  This will automatically sync any new files to your google drive.

Make sure you download Google Drive to your desktop before you set-up Mac Drop Any.

Note: You get 30GB of storage space in Google Drive.

Drive and Calendar

Drive

Save to google drive chrome extension
   Save images, links, etc directly to Google Drive.

Screen capture 
   Capture images and send to your Google Drive account.

In App training through Synergyse Chrome App
   If the training button is not visible, select Drive through the Synergyse website.  This will install the    training button in your drive account.

Connect more apps in your drive account by exploring the apps available.
   Create>connect more apps>connect

Voice Comments
Enable the voice comments app from your drive account
In drive dashboard: create>connect more apps>voice comments>connect
Here is a tutorial video that goes through it:

Calendar

Add other people's calendars

Browse interesting calendars

Explore labs (find under the settings menu)
e.g. event flare, hide morning and night, event attachments, jump to date.

Gmail & Chrome

Quick round-up of what we covered:

Synergyse Google Apps Training 

Interactive in-app training for Google Apps - speciafically Gmail and Calendar.  This is a chrome extension which will access your google account and set-up within the app required.

Chrome 

Multiple Users

You can create multiple user accounts, where bookmarks, apps, extensions, themes and browser settings for the user can be personalised.  This can be useful for having different environments for personal and professional accounts.  Click here to find out how to set this up.

Gmail

Organising your Mail

Make your mail work for you by creating different filters and rules for incoming mail.  Click here to see how to create this.