[LM_NET] Safety tip for blogs

[Janet Pedersen <jpedersen@COLDSPRINGSCHOOL.NET>]

Hello all-

For those of you who are using eblogger or blogspot for your blogs  
you might want to consider removing the little navigation bar at the  
top of your blog.  There is a link on it that says "Next blog" and  
it's possible if your students click there they will be sent to a  
blog that might have inappropriate material.  (Try it out and you'll  
see what I mean....)



You can remove that entire navigation bar by going into  
Settings>Template>Edit HTML  (you might want to make a copy of your  
template before you do any edits.... just to be safe)

Then scroll down past all the code that has <Variable name.....  in  
it  and make a space before the word body.  Then inset the following  
HTML:

#navbar {
height:0px;
visibility:hidden;
display:none
}

Save your template and when your blog comes up, the navigation bar  
will be gone.   The only down side is that you can't sign in to your  
blogger account from your blog.  You'll need to go to blogspot.com or  
blogger.com to do that, but it seems worth it from a safety point of  
view.

If you have any questions, don't be afraid to email me directly.


Janet Pedersen
Librarian
Cold Spring School
Santa Barbara, CA 93108
jpedersen@coldspringschool.net
website: http://teacherweb.com/ca/coldspringschool/mrspedersen- 
library/t.stm
blog:
http://csslibraryblog.blogspot.com/

At the moment that we persuade a child, any child, to cross that  
threshold,
that magic threshold into a library, we change their lives forever,  
for the
better. ~~Barack Obama






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