We’ve just released the new Edublogs for Android app – available now for free in the Google Play Store!
You can blog, upload photos, moderate comments, and more right from your phone or tablet.
Here are a few screenshots to whet your appetites:
Nice, huh?
For help using the app or more info about blogging from phones and tablets, check out the guide here.
And don’t forget our Edublogs for iOS app too :)
Happy mobile blogging!
Woah!
Check out what just happened on the upper left corner of our site.
Teachers and students around the world have now created more than TWO MILLION blogs on Edublogs.org.
You add the nearly 1 million more on our Edublogs Campus networks, and you’ll find Edublogs being used in classrooms in just about every single country, age group, and subject matter there is.
We’re stoked! And humbled!
A massive thank you to all of our users that have helped to grow the Edublogs community.
Our goal is to keep growing with 10’s of millions more blogs – we certainly couldn’t do that without all of you.
Thank you!
Happy blogging!
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 on our Edublogs Campus networks too!
1. Head over to the Subscriptions > Settings in your blog’s dashboard.
2. Check the different options to personalize the emails that are sent out. You really won’t have to make any changes, but if you’d like the “Follow” button to show, enable it here.
3. Go to Appearance > Widgets and add the Email Subscription widget to a sidebar. This will give your visitors an easy way to subscribe themselves.
4. That’s it! You can manage and see a list of your subscribers at Subscriptions > Subscribers.
For class blogs, add all students and parents as email subscribers with one one click using the new import tool (Subscriptions > Add Subscribers) to ensure they are all getting updates.
If you post a ton, change over to daily or weekly digests so that your followers don’t get bombarded with loads of emails.
We’re hopeful that these improved tools will only increase the communication abilities that blogs provide.
If you need any help getting started, contact our support team and we’ll get you fixed up!
Happy blogging!
It’s August!
And for many of you, that means new beginnings with a whole new school year.
We have two new videos we want to share that hopefully can help kick things off!
We made this video for you to use with students, parents, or fellow educators to quickly explain all about blogs.
Feel free to share, use in presentations, and post on your own blogs or sites too!
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Watch and get the embed code on MediaCore or YouTube.
The second video is brief overview of Edublogs!
This video is the best way to share with a fellow educator or school administrator what Edublogs is all about.
[mediacore height=”315px” public_url=”http://edublogs.mediacore.tv/media/why-edublogs” thumb_url=”http://cdnassets.mediacore.tv/sites/8118/images/media/529917m-NNOSLy5o.jpg” title=”Why Edublogs” width=”560px”]
Watch and get the embed code on MediaCore or YouTube.
We have more videos, activities, and exciting feature announcements planned soon.
Make sure you don’t miss anything in the new school year rush:
Happy blogging!
And let us know if our team can do anything to help!
Yesterday we announced new integration with Google Apps and popular Learning Management Systems.
Today, we’re thrilled to share new hosting options for our Edublogs Campus schools in Canada and Europe!
Thanks to incredible growth and high demand, we now have the ability to bring the same safe, fast, and reliable Edublogs service to shiny new servers located in Portsmouth, UK and Toronto, Canada.
We’re most excited about the fact that this will allow us to better meet local policy needs of all data being housed closer to home.
Existing Edublogs Campus schools that would like to be moved over should contact us at support@edublogs.org and let us know.
All new schools in Canada and the EU will be automatically added to the new data centers.
So contact us now and we’ll get you setup with a free 30 day trial!
With Edublogs Campus, we make it super easy for every student, staff, and faculty member to have their own WordPress blog or website.
And as of today, we’re excited to share, we can now integrate with many popular student management and learning tools, including Google Apps for Education and Learning Management Systems like Desire2Learn, Canvas, Moodle, and Blackboard.
If your school is already using Google Apps for Education, we can enable single sign on to manage user accounts, passwords, and blog creation.
This will mean that students and staff will have one less password to remember and it is even easier to allow users to create accounts and blogs without the need for request forms, CSV uploads, or other time consuming processes.
For your LMS and other learning tools, we can now harness LTI to handle user account and blog creations.
Future plans include more detailed integration with many popular tools like links to class blogs within a course, auto-provisioning blogs for students in a course, and more.
We’ll work closely with our Edublogs Campus clients to determine these future plans, needs, and timelines!
If you already have a Campus network, or if you’d like to learn more about getting setup, get it touch with us at support@edublogs.org.
For new networks, we can usually have you up and running in as little as a day. We can even migrate existing WordPress networks over to Edublogs as well.
Don’t forget, we’re happy to setup free trials for Campus, so giving us a try is risk free, fast, and easy!
