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Edublogs Weekly: Get inside tips on blogging with students
In case you missed it, we started the FREE professional development series on blogging with students this week! Especially geared for those that want to have their students participate in the upcoming Student Blogging Challenge that is starting in March, gear up and get ready to learn: The educational and curricular benefits of student blogging Choosing…
A fun time with students in our webinar!
During today’s class blog webinar, I had the pleasure of welcoming in David Carruthers’ grade 6 class from St. Thomas, Ontario. Let me just say that these students were wonderful! We host these webinars on a rotating basis, and we don’t require any sign-up, registration, or really have any way of knowing who might show up….
Students no longer need email addresses to start an Edublog
As much of the world is heading back to school this month, we have an exciting new feature at Edublogs that is sure to make it even easier to get students up and blogging this school year. You will be happy to hear that Edublogs no longer requires users to have an email address! We…
Open Mic. – Using Edublogs with your students
OK, since we recently started allowing student blogs on Edublogs it’s about time we heard from you exactly how you’d like to use blogs with them! So, please use the comments below to let us know about creating blogs for your students, managing them once they’re going, aggregating them all into one place and also…
Simply create blogs and usernames for your students
Update: By popular demand we’ve also introduced an ‘Add Users’ feature that lets you easily add up to 15 users at one time to your blog (and they can all have different roles too!) Check out ‘Add Users’ under your ‘Users’ tab. We’ve got a cracking new feature this week, one that we should’ve introduced…