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Single line of code to add to HTML blog gadgets:

"LinkWithin is a blog widget that appears under each post, linking to related stories from your blog archive" (Show Related Stories Under Each Post, para. 1, 2011.05.14).

"TimelineJS is an open-source tool that enables anyone to build visually rich, interactive timelines. Beginners can create a timeline using nothing more than a Google spreadsheet" (Timeline JS, Overview, 2017.01/11).

Offers free stat's page for blogs and other websites

"Blogger Stats is that it monitors and analyzes your visitor traffic in near-real-time. You can see which posts are getting the most visits and which sites are sending traffic to your blog" (Staszek Paśko and Wiktor Gworek, Software Engineers; THURSDAY, JULY 1, 2010; ¶2, retrieved 2010.08.06).

Customizable hit counter shows flags for visitors countries, with optional map view, country codes and pageview counts.

2-3 columns, artistic, minimalistic, ...

"The related posts widget will show a new related posts section below your post page.The related posts widget fetches the related posts from those posts having the same label as the current post." (Related Posts Blogger Widget v1, ¶1)

"Drop.io offers a simple upload widget that you can embed into your course blog or website" ( ¶2). Mr Byrne's 2010.02.25 post includes slideshow of "directions for installing the Drop.io upload widget on Blogger blogs and Edublogs blogs" (¶2).

Allows uploading photos plus voice recording, and generates embed-able widgets; free with username, password, and email registration 

Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus has launched an innovative new tool called VocabGrabber (http://vocabgrabber.com) that helps teachers and students target the key vocabulary from a text within seconds. Powered by the award-winning Visual Thesaurus software, VocabGrabber intelligently extracts words from any document and demonstrates how those words are used in context. It's a boon for language arts teachers, students of English at all levels of proficiency, or anyone who wants fresh insights into how language works. VocabGrabber is easy to use. Simply copy a passage (up to about 100 pages) into a box on the VocabGrabber web site (http://vocabgrabber.com), click the Grab Vocabulary button, and an interactive visualization of vocabulary words and phrases immediately appears. Or add a VocabGrabber button to your toolbar, and you can grab vocabulary words from a web page with one click. What makes VocabGrabber especially useful is the way in which the words are organized. VocabGrabber compares how often words appear in the text with the frequency of these words in standard written English overall. Grabbing the vocabulary from the United States Bill of Rights, for instance, highlights significant legal terms like probable cause and cruel and unusual punishment. Grabbing the opening of the Charles Dickens classic Oliver Twist, meanwhile, will quickly zero in on words like workhouse, gruel, and pauper.

Apparently works on blogger

Explains how to add green badges to various types of blogs, including now defunct Vox blogs

Searchable by subject or template, this site facilitates creation of "free educational games, quizzes, activities and diagrams in seconds!" (2011.07.04). Templates [include:] Fakebook [new] Arcade Game Generator Random Name Picker Countdown Timer Twister Keyword Checker Plagiarizr Dustbin Game Telescopic Topic Post It Diamond 9 Fishbone (Ishikawa) Venn Diagram Animated Book Timeline Lights Out Target Hamburger Living Graph Learning Cycle Jigsaw Diagram Priority Chart Source Analyser

In this April 1st post, Waters lists useful widgets and points out a demo blog where most are in use. Then she provides instructions for adding them to a WordPress blog.

Tips for avoiding common problems you can apply to individual blogs as well.

In this post, Kathleen Morris introduces a Blogging Bootcamp for students, and "four additional courses specifically for educators looking to upskill in particular areas of blogging, online communities and technology" (Teacher courses, ¶1).