Problems in Blogger with the text gadget.

Homework 2nd October 2013 1ºA: p. 7 nº 10. 3ºA: p. 11 nºs 3 y 4, p. 12 nº2. #iestartessos
— Ana García Álvarez d (@AnaGarciaTeacha) October 2, 2013

I'm having problems with the gadget of text in which I usually wrote the Homework, it doesn't save the new information, so I have decided to take it out. This happened to me on Monday and I have been trying to fix it since then, I even tried to make a photo of the homework but the image gadget is not working me either. So I have decided to tweet the homework every day on Twitter, in that way, it will appear on your right as usual, just that it will do on the Twitter widget. I hope this gets fixed so we can get back to the blog; I do not want my Twitter account do this : ( , but if it helps...
If there is anybody who knows how to fix it, please tell me!
I would appreciate any comments on this.

How to become a follower of a blog.

A5Farmacia's blog

Many of you find it difficult to become a follower of any blog, but it has some advantages, especially if you found a blog you like and you don't  want to miss it. I am going to try to explain it to you in the easiest way I can.

As you can see in the  picture from a good friend's blog (about skin care and products) and great health professional, it says "Participar en este sitio", or, in mine, (top right) in English "Join this site", you click there and a new window opens as you can see in this second picture:

In the new window you have some different options, first we are going to follow those that  have a Google (Gmail) account; if you do not have one, you can create it, it only takes two minutes or you can do it with any other account. With a google account, you log in with your username and password and you find the following window which asks you if you want to follow the blog privately or publicly, the only difference is that you appear on the display of the blog (public) or not (private). Then, you click on "Follow this blog" or "Seguir este blog"

To do it with any other account, you have to"Create a new Google account " or "Crear una cuenta de Google nueva" (this is not a Gmail account) by clicking on the button below the square and a new window opens in which you have to write your email account (hotmail or any other), your password, your date of birth and a strange word to prove you are not a robot (word verification), you have also to agree on the terms of Service and Private Policy and, finally, click on Create my account (it is a Google Friend Connect account) as in the window of the photo:

Also in this case, you would have to choose to follow publicly or privately, as in the other photo, and continue by clicking "Follow this blog"

Once you have done that, it congratulates you and tells you you already follow that blog, then you have to click on "done" or "hecho", as in the following picture:

If you have done everything correctly, your profile photo or avatar should appear along with those of the rest of followers, now you form a community with them and can get in touch with all of them within this  community:

Don't you think it is easy? Try and make yourself a follower of this blog!

PD: Thanks to all of you have already voted me (votes close next Monday 21st January) at the Love English Awards at Macmillan Dictionary Blog.

What do you use Twitter for?

Quetius Blog

What is Twitter?

Twitter is a social network created in 2006. Last year, it got up to 500 million users around all the world. The greatest difference from other social networks is that you can only write up to 140 characters in each post. Posts are called "tweets", which is the sound birds make in English. You can also find information and tweets by people you do not follow if you use "hashtags", that is, the symbol # followed by a word or sentence usually not separated (you only have 140 characters and you do not want to waste any on spaces!)

What are Twitter's main services?

There are many uses for this social network; the main one, is microblogging, that is, you tell your "followers" (people that have pushed a "follow" button on your profile because they want to know what you "tweet") what you are doing while you are doing it (present continuous is pretty used is this service)..

There are lists of up to a hundred uses of Twitter in the internet, taking one of them, we find that it is mainly used for finding quick answers, finding a job, keeping up with the news, arranging meetings with friends, to express anger against any issue, to find out what people really think of the latest movie or book and also for fun and games.

What do I use it for?

I have been in Twitter for only two months or so now, I was afraid I would have to be all day long taking care of it and I resisted myself to register, but I must say, I am really happy I did. My top 5 uses' list:

1. Share articles and my own posts from this blog.
2. Keep up with news (especially educative ones)
3. Learn from people in a professional way.
4. Be in contact with my students.
5. Create a professional network.

I have found this social network very rewarding both professionally and personally; for instance, yesterday one of my students created the hashtag #APorEl3Puesto, to help me win at the Love English Awards contest by the MacMillan Dictionary Blog (if you want to vote, it only takes a few seconds and no data is required from you). I was quite moved.

What do you use it for?