It all started on a typical Monday morning when my web browser of choice, Chrome, just stopped working for me. A quick google search lead nowhere – only that others experienced similar problems over the past year, but no help or advice. I deleted, reinstalled, upgraded, downgraded, and nothing – Chrome was not happy. So…
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An interview with an award winning blogger and educator
One of the most exciting things about being part of the Edublogs team is that we get to see all of the excellent uses of class and student blogs around the globe. We recently learned that one of our users, Donal O’ Mahony from Portmarnock Community School in Ireland, had been nominated for a European…
Edublogs Weekly Review: Taking blogging to infinity and beyond
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…
Edublogs Weekly Review: Library blogs are stealing the show!
At Edublogs, we like watching the counter at the top left of our homepage grow. As of today, there are over 617,000 teacher, student, and education blogs on Edublogs.org which receive millions of page views each month! In addition to that, we have tens-of-thousands more blogs on our Edublogs Campus blog sites. So it was…
Edublogs Weekly Review: Celebrating teachers everywhere
Happy World Teachers’ Day! October the 5th was World Teachers’ Day, and we here at Edublogs are sending out a huge thank you to all of the teachers and educators around the globe! There is no doubt that educating future generations is the single most important responsibility that exists, and it certainly is no easy…
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…