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We have now gotten a US Made and Union shop to sell us BAT shirts in all designs at a low cost.
Bumper stickers are coming soon and we hope to add more shirt types (tank, polo) if there is interest in the t-shirts!
We have the option of putting a sidebar, which can contain almost any type of information we want to put there. I've played around with it some, but can not make up my mind.
I'm going to turn the sidebar on for a day and please chime in if you think it works or if it distracts from the boards. The only down side I can see is that it will reduce the viewing size of the board and it could cause slower load times if we put too much on it. The upside is that we can provide links to our other BAT sites and promote events so that everyone will notice them.
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High School Chemistry Teacher. 7th year HS teaching. Franklin Central. Indianapolis, In
I find it useful. It probably doesn't need to take over the responsibilities of the main page in terms of announcing actions, but the BAT action Tweet sidebar is cool. One thing I'd like to see under the "Who Are We" side bar is one that contains either all the "Badass Links to our Virtual Presence" which is currently contained within the files on the Main BAT page. It's nice to see what all is available in an easy to find location.
K-5 ELL (or EL) teacher, starting 24th year, in a suburb of Chicago.