The school year’s almost ended in the Northern Hemisphere! Everyone’s focusing on holidays and completing end of year tasks. But what about your class and student blogs? Now’s the time to tidy them up — it’ll save you frustrations when you come back from your holidays. And here’s our tips to help you based on…
Our Class blog list has been improved – Is Your Class Blog on the List?
The idea was simple! Create a class blog list for educators to use as a resource to get ideas for their own class blog and make connections with classes in other countries. Now over 2 years later since the class blog list was first created in 2008: It’s still growing It’s the most visited page…
Introducing teacher challenges – open professional development!
This coming Monday, January the 10th, the Edublogs team and educators from around the world will be coming together with the first ever Teacher Challenge. The first topic will be ’30 days to kick start your blogging’. Much like the twice yearly Student Blogging Challenges, these open and free professional development opportunities will allow educators…
The Edublogger’s Introduction to Blogging
Want to know more about blogging, blog terminology and use of blogs in education? Here you go! Check out our “Introduction to Blogging” that you can read online here or download as a PDF version. Enjoy and hope you find it helpful! P.S. Was created for Teacher Challenge — read more on the Teacher challenge’s…
Befunky, Photopeach, and Sketchfu – it’s what students want to do!
What are fun (and educational!) activities to do with students that they can also embed into blogs and other websites like wikis? Who better to tell us then the students themselves! So here is a list of tools compiled from recommendations by the Digiridoos, a group of Year 4/5 (9-10 year olds), who each shared…
What you wanted to KNOW about blogging!
As promised here’s my follow up post on general blogging questions asked during Richard Byrne and my ISTE Unplugged blogging session and in comments on my What Do You Want to KNOW about Blogging? post. The aim of the post is to help educators and students with their personal blogging. For my responses to student…
How To Easily Embed Your Favorite Tweet(s) Into Blog Posts
I confess! I’m a twitter-a-holic! Like all lovers of twitter I like to include tweets in my posts. Unfortunately previously this meant screenshots or copying the tweet text into the post. The good news is thanks to @robinsloan from Twitter Media we now have BlackBird Pie. With BlackBird Pie all you need to do is:…
Spicing Up Your Posts: Part II Wallwisher
Many online tools provide embed code that you can use to embed them into other web sites. The good news is that Edublogs allows you to add almost any embed code into blog posts, pages and text widgets. This means there are lots of online tools that you can embed to really spice up your…
Step 9 – Add Your Student Blogs To A Folder In Google Reader
We’ve designed a series of nine steps, with how-to info, to help you with your class blogging.. This step is to add your student blogs to a folder in Google Reader to make it easier to read their posts. Why Make it Easier to Read Posts? It’s important that you and your students are able…
Step 4 – Help Parents Connect With Your Class Blog
We’ve designed a series of nine steps, with how-to info, to help you with your class blogging. This step is to help parents and family members connect with your class blog. Educating Parents and Students About Blogs Blogs are a totally foreign concept to most students and parents. It’s important to educate them so they…