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…
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Edublogs Weekly Review: Social networking in schools, Facebook in trouble and email a thing of the past
Welcome to the first of what we hope is a useful post with a weekly overview of news in the edublogging world. This week, one of the most discussed topics around the web has to do with the use of social media by educators and students in schools. Many schools seem to be moving to…
Make-over your class blog and join the student blogging challenge
It is now time to join in on the bi-annual student blogging challenge! This challenge is all about having fun, improving blogging and reflective writing skills, and building readership and connections with a global audience. Last year, the two challenges included thousands of students from over 15 countries around the world! What is it? The…
Merry Christmas from edublogs
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…
Edubloggers and awards
There’s a wonderful range of blogs, posts and resources in the 2007 edublog awards and included among them are some fabulous edublogs blogs. So, we salute… and encourage you to salute too… the following brilliant edublogs.org blogs to make the shortlist this year (click on the category name to go and vote!): Best Individual Blog…
File sharing frenzy
Not content with bringing you funky ways to upload and present your files, Edublogs now also allows you to share those files – be they course notes, worksheets, favourite songs or great big image files – using a very funky Box.net widget. How does it work? Just go to your Presentation tab, click on Sidebar…