One of the most powerful and revolutionary aspects of many technologies being used in classrooms today revolve around the fact that they facilitate student-centered learning and collaboration. Perhaps summarized best in this week’s post from the Education Vision Leadership blog, the move to student initiated learning, while natural, is not an easy progression. Traditional methodologies, school systems,…
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Edublogs Weekly Review: Connect with classrooms and experts around the world with Skype
You may have heard that Skype announced this week the new ability to video conference with up to 10 users at once. We’ve tested this out and find it to be really cool. And since many classrooms around the globe are using services like Skype, we thought we would share a bit more. Skype is…
Edublogs Weekly Review: Social networking in schools, Facebook in trouble and email a thing of the past
Welcome to the first of what we hope is a useful post with a weekly overview of news in the edublogging world. This week, one of the most discussed topics around the web has to do with the use of social media by educators and students in schools. Many schools seem to be moving to…
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…
New plugin! Make forms, quizzes, and polls with ease
Just in time for many of us to start back with a brand new school year, Edublogs has recently unveiled a new form creator plugin available to Pro and Campus users. And you are not going to believe how easy it is to use! With an intuitive drag and drop interface, you will be making…
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…