Comments on: Little grey bar & search edublogs function

By: James

James — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 00:16:20 +0000

Yes, in options>discussion

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 15:14:15 +0000

Am I missing something, or is there no way to moderate comments before they are posted? Without that sort of safety net, my school district would never approve of this idea.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 13:36:08 +0000

I’m at the opposite end of the spectrum – I work at a virtual charter school and all of my kids have internet acccess … but no school! So, we’re always looking for new ways to connect with kids, but have some pretty strict guidelines on how we can use other sites as we the teacher is not in the room, monitoring student activity. That’s why edublogs / learnerblogs is ideal. That’s why I’m quite pleased to hear “next blog” won’t ever be there. Thanks ;)

By: daughter9moons2001

daughter9moons2001 — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 03:15:24 +0000

> A good number of the blogs I’ve seen are written for a student audience.

Come to think of it, I had noticed that. I thought those were for student teachers or people interested in becoming teachers. Most of my students have no internet access except at school.

By: James

James — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 22:46:15 +0000

No *next blog* – ever! Promise :D

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 13:46:58 +0000

> Since students really have no business here,

They see it when they view your blog, don’t they? A good number of the blogs I’ve seen are written for a student audience.

By: daughter9moons2001

daughter9moons2001 — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 03:16:31 +0000

TBH, I didn’t pay any attention to the little grey bar at the top. I mean, I knew it was there, but it just didn’t bother me. Since students really have no business here, I don’t see the problem. Maybe I’m just blind.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 01:23:21 +0000

Thanks James. I think that’s great. Oh, and I think this will *really* kick off. ;) It’s fantastic. My wife teaches Blogging workshops to Librarians and Teachers here in upstate New York, and this was a hit. :)

Anyway – it sounds just as secure as one could expect. I think a real turn-off would be the idea of “next blog” if someone goes to they blog awards or to the main page and then find their way to a goofy site then that’s one thing, but ending up there from a single click is more of an issue. Thanks again.

By: James

James — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 22:21:56 +0000

Hi Jeff… yeh you’re probably right.

Don’t worry about the kids though, there’s no way I’d put this on http://learnerblogs.org

In terms of edublogs being edu professionals blogs I do a ‘moderate’ filtering of blogs and new content so as long as things don’t *really* kick off I’m pretty in control of that. Same for uniblogs / learnerblogs.

In fact, I’ve just added ‘recent posts’ to http://learnerblogs.org and am not really sure if it’s a good idea or not. I like the idea of some interconnectiveness but feel, similarly to you, that the isolation of individual blogs is a kinda safety feature.