In case you missed it, Larry Ferlazzo published an interview with Edublogs’ founder and CEO, James Farmer, today.
It’s an interesting read – especially with the discussion about how Edublogs was started more than 6 years ago and includes a link to the very first home page of our site.
Man have we come a long way!
You’ll also find a sneak peek at some of the new and exciting features coming soon to a blog near you.
If you are looking for something to add to your Kindle queue, or a new good-ol-fashioned book to read, we want to suggest Nicolas Pujol’s The Mind Share Market: The Power of Alternative Currency.
Ok, so it may only really appeal to you if you are like us and love learning more about online business models and strategies for building services on the web. But we had to share because Edublogs is featured as a case study in the book – which we think is pretty cool!
Through Pujol’s book, those looking to start new ventures online can learn how services like Edublogs use the ‘freemium’ model to build communities that include (as in our case) millions of users.
What do you think?
The first Student Blogging Challenge of the year is under way, and even if you or your students aren’t participating, the challenge blog is an excellent resource for blogging ideas.
So far this challenge, students and teachers have created about pages, avatars, and slideshows, written in a foreign language, edited images, and much more!
As you can see here, this is ‘take a break’ week in the challenge – and it is never too late to start!
Also, the fearless challenge leader, Sue Wyatt, is always looking for volunteers to visit student blogs and leave comments. You can learn more about that here.
Be sure to check out the great student work and consider helping out in the global challenge!
We couldn’t be more thrilled to announce today that we have lowered and changed our prices for our Edublogs Campus packages.
Edublogs Campus allows schools, districts, and universities to have their own private blogging platform powered with the same great features as Edublogs Pro – and then some.
You can learn more about Campus and review the different packages here.
We’ve said it before, but the real power of blogging in education truly shines through when students have their own individual blogs. That’s why we felt it important to be able to offer an UNLIMITED number of student blogs with most of our new Campus packages.
Here is just a few of the ways schools and universities are using Campus already:
Contact us to learn more or to set up a no obligation and personalized web tour of Campus – we’d love to show you around!
It is almost too embarrassing to write about – but during a recent Edublogs Campus training session, a user asked for an explanation for what all of those icons do in the visual post editor.
I admit, I hadn’t actually played with them all before, and had to do some quick learning for a couple on the fly. Who knew the custom characters tool was there all this time!?
Thanks to my new found custom character button, I can say happy π day everyone! :)
So, here is a quick and complete list of all of the different tools available to you when editing a post:
5 Lessons for Educators from “The King’s Speech”
Wow. You should check out this post – even if you haven’t seen the movie! From the EFL Classroom 2.0 blog by David Deubelbeiss.
Have a post that you would like us to consider for post of the week? Send out a tweet using the hashtag #ebshare so we’re sure to see it!
Join us for this week’s live events!
Thursday the 17th @ 4pm PST – Edublogs Serendipity – PD Out Of A Blue Sky
Join us in our fortnightly unconference sessions. Bring along the burning issues and hot topics YOU would like to discuss. The topic is chosen by poll at the start of the session.
If you’re interested in suggesting a topic, or even better, being a presenter, leave a comment and let us know!
Learn more about our live events here!
We hope to see you there and have a great week!
Twice each year, educator extraordinaire Sue Wyatt puts together an amazing 10 week global challenge for students of all ages and abilities.
Most definitely the largest event of it’s kind, the Student Blogging Challenge has hundreds and hundreds of registered students and classes. The goal of the challenge is to improve students’ global awareness, blogging skills, and online netiquette.
It isn’t to late to join in – students register here and teachers register your classes here.
You don’t have to use Edublogs to participate, and activities will ask students and mentors to visit each others’ blog posts, make comments, and collaborate on 10 weekly challenges!
It is an absolute blast! With loads of learning going on too :)
Visit the Student Challenge blog now to learn more.
A blog dedicated to stretching the digital dollar popped up on our twitter feed this week and one post really stuck out.
Let Them Play: Video gaming in education is an interesting post about the merits of games in the classroom. Check it out!
Have a post that you would like us to consider for post of the week? Send out a tweet using the hashtag #ebshare so we’re sure to see it!
Join us for next week’s live events!
Thursday the 10th @ 4pm PST – Edublogs Fine Focus- PD Out Of A Blue Sky –
Topic: Easy ‘tooning with ToonDoo
Join us for our fortnightly “Fine Focus” sessions each week. In these sessions we range across a variety of topics and include discussion (”Talk Time”), how to use various applications (”Techie How To”), and using technology in the classroom (“Tools and Strategies”). In fact anything “e-” that is of interest to educators!
If you’re interested in suggesting a topic, or even better, being a presenter, leave a comment and let us know!
Learn more about our live events here!
We hope to see you at all of the great live events this week!
