The initial list of Resources for Creating a Blog was published during the first week of the course. I've added in several additional blog posts with tips and links to resources for creating your blog. This week the focus has been on adding gadgets (or widgets), setting blog permissions and controlling blog comments.
With these different posts and the resources available to you under blogger help, with a bit of time, the process of creating a blog will be more fun and less confusing.
Defining Integral Model
JFK University who offer a Master's in Integral Theory offer this definition of the Integral Model:
The integral model is a unifying and comprehensive framework, bringing together many discrete disciplines – from psychology to politics, ecology to social sciences, business to spiritual studies – that can be used to develop comprehensive, effective, and integrally informed approaches to specific problems and their solutions.
Image of Integral Model
Additional Resource for Understanding Integral Model
One of your classmates found these additional resources that do an excellent job in explaining Wilber's Four Quadrants.
You have several options for controlling the comments made to your blog.
Start by looking under the "Settings" tab for "Comments."
The first choice you have in controlling blog comments is to answer the question "" Your choices are
Anyone (This includes Anonymous Users)
Users with Google Accounts
Only members of the blog
If you want to restrict comments in your blog to classmates, you could set the blog permissions and limit readers to only other classmates. The next step would be to restrict comments on the blog to only members of the blog, or only people that you have allowed to read your blog.
Comment moderation
Another way to restrict comments is to have the Comment moderation option ticked as "Always." This ensures that you read any comment before it gets posted.
Blogger allows you to choose who has access to your blog.
To choose who has access to your blog, go under the "Settings" Tab and select "Permissions."
Look for Blog Readers
Answer the question, "Who can view this blog?" Your choices are:
Anybody
Only people I choose
Only blog authors.
By default your blog is open to all readers.
You can restrict your blog to only readers you choose. If you chose to restrict your blog, the readers will need to log into Blogger before being able to read your blog.
Gadgets are an easy way to customize the layout of your blog. Any of the Basic Blogger Gadgets, Featured Gadgets, Popular Gadgets and many others (More Gadgets) can be added to your blog.
How to Add a Gadget to Blogger
From the Page Elements sub-tab, click Edit to edit existing gadgets, or Add a Gadget to add new ones.
To add a new gadget after you've clicked Add a Gadget, simply click the plus sign next to your desired gadget. You can choose from gadgets by category, or search for a specific gadget in the top right of the pop-up window.
Gadgets can be added in several places to your blog from the Layout Screen. Look for the areas that say "Add a Gadget." In the basic blog layout, you can add Gadgets to
The top of the blog
The bottom of the blog
The top of the side bar
The bottom of the side bar
If you adjust your blog layout template, just look for the areas that say "Add a Gadget" to see where you can add a gadget to the new layout.
See the blog post on "Basic Blogger Gadgets" for a list of some of the Gadgets you can add to your Blogger Blog. You can also look at the earlier post on "Fun Wellness Widgets."
Kirsti A. Dyer MD, MS, FT is a respected physician, health educator, professor, author and former NICU Parent. She uses different identities Comfortdoc, Griefdoc, Momdoc, Professordoc, Nutritiondoc and Wellbeingmd depending on the circumstance. Since 1997 she has served the grieving Internet community with the Journey of Hearts website. She keeps several blogs on a variety of topics.
