Widgets are used for a wide range of purposes including:
- Help students, parents and visitors find information on the blog e.g. Search widget, pages widget, category widget, tag cloud widget
- Track visitors to the blog. Visitor tracking widgets are used to highlight a blog’s global audience. This can be incredibly motivating for students and provides a built in geography lesson. e.g. Flag Counter, Feedjit Live Traffic Feed, ClustrMaps, Revolver Map.
- Student engagement e.g. Quiz widgets, Pet widgets, Wonderopolis.
- Information to help other classes learn more about your class- – date widgets, date/time widgets, weather widget.
- Latest news – Twitter widget. Dogo Current Events widget Classes often have their own class twitter account and display their tweets using the Twitter widget.
- Links to helpful resources, student blogs and other class blogs – Links widget, Pinterest widget
- Help parents, caregivers and other visitors translate your blog e.g. Google Translate widget.
- Events Calendar for important dates – Google Calendar
- Book lists – Shelfari bookshelf and Goodread bookshelf
- Email notification of new posts – email subscription widget
- Displaying comments or posts recently posted – recent comments widget, recent posts widget
We’ve set up Widget demo blog to showcase the most popular widgets that educators, and their students, like to add to their sidebar so you can check out all the widgets in one handy location.
