CommentPress

We’ve been testing it for a while, and all looks good, so time to make it official… edublogs has gone and got itself a case of CommentPress.

What is CP? Well, it’s a spanking theme from the Institute for the Future of the Book that “allows readers to comment paragraph by paragraph in the margins of a text”.

Likeso:

Commentpress sample

Pretty neat huh!

So what can you do with it well, I reckon there could be some pretty neat papers, thesi (sp?) or plain old posts put together using this theme. Or, whatabout support guides, lesson plans or anything else that could be fed back on but by bit. And that’s just my limited imagination. Here are some more examples.

You can even use it as a plain old blog theme.

So, visit ‘Presentation’ and give it a whirl… happy commenting!

100,000 edublogs

What more can I say, last week we passed 100,000 edublogs and we’re extremely happy about it :)

Fireworks
CC Mohanmon

Well, OK, I can say a bit more, in fact we’ve currently got more like 103,000 blogs, separated over four sites (63K on edublogs.org and 39K spread across the student sites).

In September at edublogs.org alone we racked up 268,638 unique visitors, who dropped by 904,053 times enjoying 13,701,840 page views while sucking up almost 500Gig bandwidth.

Phew!

And to add to that we picked another new webserver, introduced upgrades, synced up with your webmail for invites and generally had a very busy time of it.

And October is going to be just as fun – we think you’re really going to like some of the things we’ve got planned.

So thanks for being part of our first 100K… and happy edublogging!

Treat yourself to an upgrade

Upgrades have come to edublogs :)

Yep, we’ve only got one little baby in place at the moment (you can upgrade to 1Gig upload space for $25 a year) but we’re going to be adding more and more (like running an edublog at your own domain) so that, if you so choose, you can really take your edublog to the next level.

All you have to do is click on ‘Upgrades’ in the menu bar, buy some credits and go on a spending spree…

And, what’s more, you can even give edublog credits to other users as presents!

Upgrade!

Also, naturally we remain completely committed to providing and improving edublogs completely free of charge!

Happy uploading…

Sad news

We heard this morning that long time edublogger and respected teacher Christine Leal was tragically killed in a car accident on the morning of September 13th.

Her friend and colleague Shellie Escobodo has placed a post on Christine’s blog to allow those who knew her to leave their goodbyes.

Here’s the post.

As a mark of respect we’ll be making Christine’s blog the featured front page blog for the next week.

Edublogging Antarctica

On November 3rd 2007, 4 teachers from the UK will be heading off to Antarctica on a scientific expedition.

They will spend four weeks camping in Antarctica, hiking through areas deep in the Antarctic interior that have not previously been subject to scientific research. The expedition has been organised by the Fuchs Foundation in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the first Trans-Antarctic crossing by Sir Vivian Fuchs.

The aim of the expedition is to inpsire pupils to take a greater interest in science, geography and the environment. Whilst on the ice, the teachers will be in daily contact with pupils through the internet. They will send back blogs, images and short video and audio files to enable pupils to ‘virtually’ experience field research in one of the most extreme environments on the planet.

And, yep, they’re doing it with edublogs too! Check out Amy Rogers, a science teacher in Nuneaton, and Ruth Hollinger, is a geography teacher in Sheffield.

Their edublogs to allow pupils to follow their progress through their selection and training and, naturally, they will update these blogs from Antarctica.

Hear more about it in a BBC Coventry radio interview.

Here’s the really important bit though: The teachers are looking for sponsorship as they each need to raise £10,000. If you are interested in donating money or in getting your company logo onto kit that would be visible in images and video footage please contact Dr Amy Rogers, Higham Lane School, Nuneaton: amy.c.rogers@gmail.com

Or forget the logo, and just help these guys run an amazing online educational experience by contributing or spreading the word to as many people as you can.

Edublogvangelism – get involved!

The new academic year is upon us and we’ve got heaps of great new features (more on the way),  brilliant new speedy servers and even a fancy new logo and look to take us into 2007 – 2008.

So, what better time than to spread the word, by letting your colleagues know all about us.

And guess what, we’ve made that dead easy for you too – if you look on your ‘Dashboard’ you’ll see a link saying: “NEW – Recommend edublogs to your colleagues and friends” or you can get straight to it from  Users > Invites (below):

Recommend edublogs to your colleagues

Just whack in a special message, add a few emails, and hit send :)

Or, if you really want to go to town, you can click on the link provided and import email addresses from gmail, yahoo, hotmail, lycos or msn! All you have to do then is select the ones you want to email.

Get involved in some edublogvangelism, your colleagues will thank you for it!

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