Sidebar features

Hi kids!

one of the really cool features of blogger is the sidebar, which you can see to the left of these blog posts, starting at the top I have set up a brief personal description; please remember not to provide too much personal information here as it's live on the web. I've also put up a picture; again I wouldn't put a personal photo up, I've got my wiimii, but you could create a production company logo for your group and slap that up there instead. The same goes for the header (where it says darlow.org) which I've put my logo on, you could do this, or just use text, or create a logo with photoshop.

Next up, I've got a poll, which is very easy to make, and will give you an excellent source of feedback from people who read your blog. I recommend that you invite people to read your essays or look over your premise and storyboards and give you feedback. It all helps and will show interaction and audience research.

Below that, and unfortunately invisible in school (except by rolling the mouse over it) is a slideshow of flickr images, i've just set it to randomly show pictures with the tag 'film', but if you have or set up a flickr account, you can upload production images (from home only soz!) and let people browse them, but don't let that stop you uploading them to your main blog posts too!

Lastly, I've got my blog archive, this is useful as it lists your blog posts by date and title; making navigating to a particular blog post much easier than scrolling through and manually searching!

I hope this all makes sense and they're useful ideas... there are lots more options for your sidebar and I can explain how to use them in your lesson!

~joe