There are only a few days left to vote in the 2010 Edublog Awards, and we wanted to take this opportunity to let you know why you should both vote and visit the Edublog Award site: Find out who the edublogosphere thinks are the top blogs to follow Discover 42 of the top tweeters to…
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Edublogs Weekly Review – Goblins, ghosts, and Halloween swag for your blog
Are you as excited about the chocolate and costume filled weekend ahead as we are? We thought it might be fun to share a few of the Halloween resources we’ve come across which might make good additions to a weekend blog post or add a bit of holiday fun to your sidebar. So here goes:…
Edublogs Weekly Review: Top 5 sites to find images for student use
This week, Kathleen McGeady wrote an excellent post on student blogging and internet images. Her experience with grade 2 students and teaching appropriate copyright use is truly inspirational. This one sentence is an excellent reminder to educators and students about the importance of using images from sources that approve the use. Many students’ first instinct…
Major news! Our new community site and blog directory is now live
We’re excited, and we think you will be too! If you click on the Community tab at the top of the Edublogs home page, you’re now taken to our new community area. What’s in our new community? Our new communiy area is designed as a place to collaborate, share blogs and resources including: Latest posts for…
K-12 blogging just got… quicker
This week we’ve been mostly working on getting our K-12 Edublogs site, hosted at http://learnerblogs.org up and running on the same database structure as our teacher version – which you’re enjoying now! And so far so good, we know that sites hosted at learnerblogs.org have been unacceptably slow of late – partly do to a…
New themes & widgets a go go
For your presentation delectation we’ve just uploaded a heap of new themes. They’re all ‘widget friendly’ (check out the ‘Widget tab under the presentation bar) and many allow customisation of site headers (in theme options). Have a play and let me know if there are any bugs or issues….