It is practically impossible to keep up with the ever-changing tools and resources available to educators. Not to mention all of the new vocabulary and jargon that comes along with it. The following posts from our own Sue Waters on TheEdublogger.com might be a great place to start: A Glossary to DEMYSTIFY the jargon of…
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Edublogs Weekly Review: EdCamps and Teach Meets – A new kind of professional development
Over the past year, a grass roots movement in educator professional development has evolved into a widespread phenomenon. EdCamps, mostly in the US, and Teach Meets, mostly in the UK, are popping up all over as a new type of collaborative conference. In fact, they are often called an “unconference” as the attendees are the…
Make-over your class blog and join the student blogging challenge
It is now time to join in on the bi-annual student blogging challenge! This challenge is all about having fun, improving blogging and reflective writing skills, and building readership and connections with a global audience. Last year, the two challenges included thousands of students from over 15 countries around the world! What is it? The…
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…
Edublogs are now more student friendly than ever!
If you have logged into your blog lately, you might have seen a screen that looks like this when you first signed in: This is a new feature that is designed for younger and beginning bloggers to simplify the blog dashboard area by rearranging and hiding some of the less used features. If you don’t see…
Unveiling 33 new themes – and new theme features all round…
You may have noticed recently that there are a lot more options when it comes to themes to use on Edublogs. We now have a whopping 137 themes to choose from, including 33 new snazzy themes available to Pro users. And alongside that, we’ve added new features to almost every single theme – including threaded…