In this post I’m going to look at how students can benefit from blogging, with reference to my own experience supporting a group of Year 6 kids (10 and 11 year olds) to create their own blogs. And I’ll show you just how easy it is to get your students started with blogging, as well as giving you some tips to make it work….
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Improving parent communication in 3 short steps
Earlier today, this blog post was published on Edutopia.org that shares results of a recent survey by the National School Public Relations Association in the US. The survey asked parents and non-parents (over 43,000 of them!) how they want to be kept informed about what’s going on at school. The results were surprising in that social…
Updated! Better email subscription to keep your followers and parents informed!
Sending an automatic email to your blog’s visitors with each new post is a powerful way to reach them. And today, we are rolling out new and improved email subscription to help you grow and maintain your followers. All of this is live now for our Pro blogs on Edublogs.org and will soon be available…
New Feature! Easy Password Protect Your Entire Blog
We have always had many different privacy options available to our bloggers – blogs can be as public or as private as you’d like. Until now, if you wanted your blog to be private so that only a certain group of people could see it, you had to create and add usernames for each individual…
Guide to finding and securing grants and outside funding for blogs and ed tech
Finding the funds for Edublogs Pro, Edublogs Campus, or any other education technology product out there isn’t always easy. This is especially the case as schools and educators are facing difficult decisions in times were budgets are tight. We have a growing number of users that have found success with grants, donations, and asking organizations…
Edublogs Weekly Review: Connect with classrooms and experts around the world with Skype
You may have heard that Skype announced this week the new ability to video conference with up to 10 users at once. We’ve tested this out and find it to be really cool. And since many classrooms around the globe are using services like Skype, we thought we would share a bit more. Skype is…
