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One of the best parts about working at Edublogs is seeing daily all of the amazing learning experiences of students through blogging.
We regularly try to share these examples on our Facebook and Twitter pages, but this one in particular seemed worthy of a bit more.
Six teachers, from six different corners of the world, have collaborated together and co-created the Our World, Our Stories project blog.
The seven week long project has a different class, each from a different country, leading the students through learning experiences each week. For example, this week the students are discussing about the similarities and differences between their typical school days in each country.
You can learn more about all of the details on the about page here.
We absolutely love this idea and encourage everyone to check-in on the blog over the coming weeks to see how it plays out.
Or if you are interested in doing something similar with your students, feel free to leave your name, location, age group, and a link to your blog or contact info in the comments below.
Perhaps you can find willing classes to start a global blogging project on your own.
What amazing work by these teachers, and what an exciting experience for these students!
If you’ve logged into the dashboard of your blog in the last few days, then you probably have already noticed – but we just rolled out many exciting new features!
Plus, we’re just 11,000 10,000 blogs short of the 1 million we need to keep all blogs advertisement free forever!
It’s just too much to share all in one post, but here is a quick overview of some of what is new:
1. A new dashboard look
This will be the first thing you notice if you haven’t already. Everything is still in a familiar location, but the look and feel is a bit more polished.
As you explore the made over dashboard, you will find several improvements such as better search for themes, easier ways to sort posts and pages, and other little tools built in that should make blogging a bit easier.
Across the top of your blog you will find a new Admin Bar which will help you navigate around your blog and our site.
You can turn off this bar under Settings > Admin Bar in your dashboard if you would prefer – but we find it handy to quickly add a new post, login, or go back and forth between the site and dashboard.
You will find a new Wiki plugin which lets you add pages to your blog which are fully functional wikis!
Settings allow you to choose between letting all visitors, only registered users, or a select few to edit the wiki. Changes are tracked and discussion is encouraged. This one we know many of you will love!
Read more about wikis on our help and support site here.
Under Appearance > Menus you will find a brand new area for customizing the order and layout of your menus.
The drag-and-drop menu creation allows you to add links to any site on the web, specific categories, and more.
Adding custom menus is easy, and detailed directions on how are here.
Our Easy Blogging dashboard got a complete face lift too! This feature was designed so that more inexperienced bloggers can get their feet wet by removing a lot of the less used options. Plus, we just think it looks cool :)
You can go back and forth between the Easy Admin and the normal dashboard areas anytime.
We greatly simplified the process of creating new users and blogs by rolling everything into this one new and improved creation tool.
Pro users will now be able to more easily create additional blogs, student blogs or accounts, and set it up so that you can manage them all right from the get-go.
There is also a new Google Maps plugin which makes it easy to add maps to your blog – including satellite and street views!
Best of all, it is easy to use, but you can find more details of how to use it here.
There is actually quite a bit more – including the ability to hide parts of a post until a selected time, improved form making, and updates to many themes. We will be sharing those in more detail in the coming weeks.
In the mean time, play around and let us know what you think!
As always, feel free to contact us should you need any help with any of these new features.
Enjoy!
The big education news over the weekend was that Skype launched it’s “Skype in the classroom” website which is now ready for use!
The new free directory promises to make it easy to connect with educators around the globe that are interested in using skype to connect with guest speakers, set up language exchanges, and facilitate class discussions no matter how far apart the classes may be.
And we know this will be successful judging by the thousands of educators each month that visit our own ‘Skype Other Classrooms‘ page – one of our most popular resources for sure!
It only took us about 3 minutes to add ourselves to the directory. Once you submit your class, you can search by location, age, and topic. The filtering in the directory looks great!
Leave a comment below if you register for the site so fellow Edublogs users can more easily find you. :)
Blogger Megan Cashing is a 3rd grade teacher who keeps up with her blog, Teaching: what works and what doesn’t.
Over the past few weeks, she has some excellent and thought provoking posts about homework found here.
Leave her a comment and let her know what you think about homework too after reading the posts.
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 3rd @ 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!
This week we came across Mrs. T’s Fantastic Fifth Grade Bobcats class blog and this fun video post of a recent field trip to NASA.
In fact, we liked the blog so much that it is our blog of the week!
In addition, it really got us thinking about how blogging can be used to facilitate collaboration between classrooms and different organizations and experts such as NASA.
A little bit of fun research into the different offerings of NASA revealed a few tools and resources that you may find useful to add to your blog.
NASA and Twitter
Follow @NASAJPL_Edu for educationally related news and tweets from NASA. Some great images, videos, lesson ideas and more!
NASA hosts frequent Tweet-Ups at different locations, and if you sign up, you can be invited to come in for a VIP tour and question/answer period. How cool is that?
NASA TV
You can embed many videos from NASA right into any page or post on your blog. The most recent videos can be found here.
Or share this link to a live feed from the international space station on your blog. According to the NASA website, due to the orbit of the space station, there is a sunrise or sunset every 45 minutes caught on video here!
Live Chats
NASA offers live chats frequently with different experts about many different topics. Recent chats discuss comets, the sun, the moon, fuel, and hurricanes – a wide variety that would be relevant to many different types of courses and age groups. Students and teachers can even submit questions before hand to get answered by the expert!
All of the recent chat transcripts – and information on upcoming ones – can be found here.
More NASA Resources
Find teaching and learning materials from NASA by searching through different levels, grades, subjects, and types.
Also, you can sign up to be on NASA’s news list to receive email updates and announcements about NASA’s educational programs, activities, and events.
Top #ebshare tweets from the week:
RT @edublogs: Check out all of the Edublogs live events in November – http://bit.ly/b3Fpsf Hope to see you there! #ebshare #culturainglesa
RT @edublogs: 34 Free Productivity Tools That Will Help You Eliminate Expensive Software via @inspired_clsrm – What a list! http://bit.l …
Looking for ideas on how to help students evaluate web sites http://bit.ly/bLfa6Y #edchat #ebshare |
Want to share a post, ask others to visit a blog for comments, or show off cool student work? Use the hashtag #ebshare to let us know so we can re-tweet it for you!
Featured Edublog of the Week
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Mrs. T’s Fantastic Fifth Grade BobcatsAn excellent example of what a class blog can be! California, USA |
Find more great blogs like this one in our International Edublogs Directory.
Summing it up
Besides NASA, are there other government, business, or non-profit organizations who’s online resources could really compliment your class or student blogs?
Let us know of any you find or how you use outside resources so that we can pass it on to others.
Have a great weekend!
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