Christmas comes early at edublogs this year, partly because the day itself isn’t much known for teaching and learning ;), partly because we want to give the team a break… and partly because we just wanna spread some cheer! So, as of today you should have, available in your edublog: A snazzy new editor option…
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Keeping in contact & chocolate
Couple of things this week… first up if you take a soujourn over to your ‘Plugins’ area you’ll find a brand new toy. Just turn on the ‘Contact Form’ plugin, configure it and drop %%wpcontactform%% into a post or page and hey presto… your readers, students, gran and family pets can send you an email…
Make your edublog frontpage news
With our new design there are some new ways you can promote, share, biggup and generally pimp your edublog. First up there are ‘blogs of the hour’ – this is determined by which blogs across the community had the most readers in the last hour and is updated every 20 minutes. We prefer this to…
(This is a "Page")Who’s behind the scenes at Edublogs?
Edublogs has grown from a single idea in 2005 into the largest and most trusted provider of educational blogging in the world. We believe in the power that blogging can have to transform the educational experience of students and have seen first hand how Edublogs have increased ownership of learning, engaged students, and become a…
Threading it on Edublogs
Ian Hancock asked a good question in the forums today about embedding Voicethreads into an edublogs post. The problem being that when you copy and paste ’embed’ or ‘object’ code into your blog it disappears (it’s a security thing). But never fear, there’s a really simple workaround… all you have to do is grab the…
We’re soooo sorry!
We just can’t tell you how sorry we are for the slow loading times, errors and downtime over the last week. Essentially what happened was that the growth of edublogs meant that we were getting drive errors on our servers, so we had to upgrade to SSCI disks (which allow for far more accesses) and…