Today, Friday the 15th of October, is Blog Action Day where bloggers from around the world write about one topic to raise awareness and help drive change through collaboration. This year, the topic is water – providing access to clean and safe drinking water to the nearly 1 billion people around the world that are…
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Edublogs News: More help & support than ever before
One of the things that we pride ourselves the most on here at Edublogs is the support we provide for our users. In fact, over the past few weeks, you may have noticed an overhaul of our help.edublogs.org support site. Our team has been hard at work re-organizing and adding more information to the site…
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…
Edublogs News: Featured blogs and a hero’s interview
For the past few months, we have announced on facebook and twitter our featured blog-o-the-week each Thursday. We hope that others are able to gain ideas from these blogs while we are able to recognize teachers and students for all of their excellent work. This week, the featured blog is Heroes 2011 from Brebeuf Jesuit…
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…
New Plugin: Bring outside RSS feeds into your blog!
We’ve been on a roll the past month releasing many new plugins available to our Pro and Campus users. If you haven’t clicked on the ‘Plugins’ link in your blog’s dashboard lately, you might want to take a quick look. The newest addition will allow you to bring in RSS feeds from any blog or…