This week we’ve been mostly working on getting our K-12 Edublogs site, hosted at http://learnerblogs.org up and running on the same database structure as our teacher version – which you’re enjoying now!
And so far so good, we know that sites hosted at learnerblogs.org have been unacceptably slow of late – partly do to a huge surge in popularity and partly to us focusing a bit too much on edublogs.org – but from now on that should be a thing of the past.
And just for fun we’ve also introduced another layer of comment spam protection – so now your school students can blog quickly and even more safely too.
May 10, 2007 at 9:20 pm Permalink
Glad to hear that! It will help getting more teachers on board with their classes, I think.
I hope some of the glitches from the last week get fixed soon, though. My referers button is showing someone else’s hits and has been most of the week.
And my spam guard Akismet button disappeared this morning from the toolbar.
I need help getting those items fixed!
May 10, 2007 at 10:56 pm Permalink
good luck with that!
May 11, 2007 at 7:11 am Permalink
yep, we’re working on the referrers issue, sorry about that.
However, I would encourage anyone who likes referrers to take a peek at the Google Analytics plugin, the latest redesign they’ve done of that service is absolutely stunning – it’ the best stats application on the planet.
Could you clarify what you mean about Akismet being on your ‘toolbar’ please – I can only find it in ‘Plugins’.
Cheers, james
May 11, 2007 at 9:53 am Permalink
I miss the color wheel on the tool bar. What happened to that?
May 11, 2007 at 10:43 am Permalink
Turn on ‘Advanced WSYWIG’ in your plugins to get it back – we’re trying to simplify the interface.
May 12, 2007 at 4:20 pm Permalink
HI , I am a new user and was hoping you may tell me if there is a tutorial or something similar that new users can follow to get the best out of the site. I am new to blogging and really want to use this for my hospitality students . I am a bit shaky and could do with some guidance. Any suggestions???
BernieC
May 12, 2007 at 4:36 pm Permalink
We’ll be officially launching this later this week: http://edublogs.org/videos/
May 15, 2007 at 2:09 am Permalink
Is there I way I can set up the account so only specified student accounts can comment? If so how do I do this? I also do not want to comments visible until they are approved and/ edited.
April 3, 2009 at 5:14 am Permalink
I find this website very interesting because of how it helps teachers create blogs. It is good to hear that there are some updates because it will help teachers enhance their classrooms and classroom websites easily!