BlogThis! is an easy way to make a blog post without visiting blogger.com. Once you add the BlogThis! link to your browser's toolbar, blogging will be a snap. Or rather, a click. Clicking BlogThis! creates a mini-interface to Blogger prepopulated with a link to the web page you are visiting, as well as any text you have highlighted on that page. Add additional text if you wish and then publish or post from within BlogThis!
There are two ways to use BlogThis!: if you use Windows and Internet Explorer, you can use BlogThis! from the SendTo feature of the Google Toolbar. If you're on another browser, just drag the link below to your browser's Link bar. Then, whenever the mood strikes, click BlogThis! to post to your blog:
BlogThis! <-- drag this link to your browser's Links bar
Students will find this tool very useful when they have to create a post over a tool that we have gone over in class. When the student is on a website, and clicks BlogThis, a link of the webpage is automatically created in the post - no more linking or copying and pasting the link on their post. I created the top portion of this blog - by having the information highlighted and clicking the blogthis link!
