Christmas comes early at edublogs this year, partly because the day itself isn’t much known for teaching and learning ;), partly because we want to give the team a break… and partly because we just wanna spread some cheer! So, as of today you should have, available in your edublog: A snazzy new editor option…
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Moving from EduSpaces to edublogs?
Unfortunately, EduSpaces announced today that they’re shutting up shop in January. Needless to say that leaves a lot of bloggers looking for a new home… and we’d like to extend them all a warm welcome here :) One blogger who’s already made the move, Alicia Wyatt, has posted a quick ‘how to’ (and associated issues)…
Upload upgrade this weekend (11-12 Nov)
I’m having really relaxing weekends these days :) This weekend we’re upgrading the uploading function, unfortunately this won’t give you any more functionality but it will allow for the site to continue growing without all your uploads breaking. So there’s a good chance that files that you’ve previously uploaded will disappear for a time… but…
How do you post a podcast with edublogs.org?
An edublogs.org user that I’m particularly happy to have is my dad who today, asks a very simple question “How do I podcast”? Good question… unfortunately whoever he spoke to did not give him a good answer though so, drumroll, here’s how you podcast using edublogs.org: Record and create an .mp3 file (Audacity is free…
Two fully working plugins – and a call for more
Yes, definitely a good week. I’ve installed for your pleasure two new plugins which you can now turn on or off at your leisure. These are the ‘static front page‘ plugin (which allows you to create a page called ‘Home’ and for that to become the front page with blog posts appearing as a category……