It’s August! And for many of you, that means new beginnings with a whole new school year. We have two new videos we want to share that hopefully can help kick things off! 1. What is a blog? We made this video for you to use with students, parents, or fellow educators to quickly explain…
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Announcing NEW Unlimited Student Blogs, Better Class Management, and More!
We are thrilled to announce some big changes and improvements to Edublogs! Our focus this summer is to raise the bar in what we offer so that we continue to be the best blogging, ePortolio, and class website service for teachers and students around the world. To help us reach this goal, we start…
New Feature! Easy Password Protect Your Entire Blog
We have always had many different privacy options available to our bloggers – blogs can be as public or as private as you’d like. Until now, if you wanted your blog to be private so that only a certain group of people could see it, you had to create and add usernames for each individual…
Improving parent communication in 3 short steps
Earlier today, this blog post was published on Edutopia.org that shares results of a recent survey by the National School Public Relations Association in the US. The survey asked parents and non-parents (over 43,000 of them!) how they want to be kept informed about what’s going on at school. The results were surprising in that social…
Looking for student blogging ideas?
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…
Edublogs Weekly: Tips for editing blogs and King’s Speech for educators
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…