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What to do with your student blogs or class blogs at the end of the school year | Edublogs CampusPress WordPress
Find out how to hand over your student blogs to another teacher or parent. This post also explains how to archive or delete a student blog. There are also tips for dealing with class blogs at the end of the school year.
How To Make A Slideshow Video With Photos And Music – The Edublogger
Need to make a slideshow video with photos and music for graduation, the end of year, or any other special event? We review and compare 7 of the best free tools and apps. Find out how to use and share these tools plus learn about music copyright. ...
Why Educators Blog: The Challenges, Benefits And Tips For Getting Started – The Edublogger
Blogging provides numerous benefits but we all have reasons why we don't always blog as much as we want. Here's what you've told us in your blogging stories about blogging challenges, benefits of blogging, your blogging goals and tips for better blogging. ...
25+ Tools For Spicing Up Your Posts – The Edublogger
Embedded content like slides, quizzes, polls, videos and storybooks are a great way to engage readers' attention. We've assembled a list of the most popular tools used on class blogs, student blogs and personal educator blogs to help get you started. ...
How To Create Accessible Content For Your Class Blog Or Website (7 Simple Accessibility Tips)
7 simple ways to make your blog or website more accessible by using correct heading structures, alt text, contrasting colors, transcripts, descriptive links, and more. Learn how WordPress and CampusPress make accessibility easier.
Thoughts For Parents And Educators On School Reopening – The Edublogger
For those of us in the northern hemisphere, we will be starting our next school year in the coming weeks and months. Depending on where you live, there will be really difficult decisions made about how school will proceed during the current pandemic the world is facing. Will school be all online? If so, will...
What’s The Difference Between Tags and Categories, You Ask? – The Edublogger
When I first started blogging with Edublogs we only had categories; which most of us used like tags. But then came Christmas — and Edublogs gave us tags for every post and tag clouds for our sidebars. Now all we had to work out was “What’s the difference between tags and categories, and how would...
Getting More Out Of Blogging And Edublogs – The Edublogger
It was great to see that Edublogs featured highly in the “best 3 Web 2.0 tools”, as recommended by my Twitter network and our readers. Graham Wegner, John Larkin, Larry Ferlazzo, Rafa Ribas, and NZ Chrissy selected their blogging platform in their top 3, Edublogs for four of them. Larry explained that Edublogs is his #1...
Are You Getting The Most Out Of Your Web Browser? – The Edublogger
As part of my ongoing series on Best Web 2.0 tools, so far I’ve covered Google Tools and How to use Your Twitter Network For Help & Providing Recommendations. Web browser featured highly in my Twitter network and readers “best 3 Web 2.0 tools” so let’s talk about web browsers. Web Browsers Your web browser,...
Are You Twittering? Here’s How I Use Twitter – The Edublogger
Do you use Twitter? Perhaps you’ve not heard of it or tried but didn’t get it? Let’s be honest, watching from the outside, Twitter like the the dumbest thing you’ve heard of “Why would anyone want to tell others what they are doing in 140 characters.” And yet to dismiss Twitter is a mistake because...
Embedding Videos From Video Sharing Web Sites – The Edublogger
Our last post showed how to upload videos directly into your blog plus linked to tutorials on creating your own videos. I love teaching people how to create digital stories and videos because it’s a skill that most learners, regardless of age, enjoy learning and experimenting with and are more likely to spend time perfecting...
Differences Between Blog Pages and Posts – The Edublogger
Are you confused about the point of a blog page? Or perhaps you’ve been trying to separate topics or classes on your blog using pages but are struggling to get it to work how you would like. Deciding when to use blog posts vs pages can be puzzling so we decided to write a post to...
Tips For Doing A Blog Makeover – The Edublogger
Fantastic news! Our Getting More Out of Widgets! post inspired community members to make adjustments or add extra widgets to their blog, plus motivated some to do “blog makeovers”. Larry Ferlazzo suggested Here in the U.S there’s a popular TV show where producers go into someone’s home, and completely redo a room. Crazy idea, I...
Different Approaches To Using Student Blogs And Digital Portfolios – The Edublogger
Student blogs, digital portfolios, blogfolios. Whatever you call them, there are many advantages to helping your students establish their own online space. This post explores the different styles of blogs or portfolios you might implement in your classroom. We help you weigh up the pros and cons. ...
How To Add Your Photo to Your Blog Side Bar – The Edublogger
This is the next post in our “blog makeover” series that provides an excellent opportunity to respond to a reader’s suggestion to include an image using HTML in a page or sidebar. It is recommended you read the previous post on Getting more out of Widgets prior to reading this post. Basic knowledge of HTML...
How I Use RSS To Make My Life Easier – The Edublogger
So we’ve tried our best to explain what is RSS and why it’s important to learn how to use. And as we said it’s hard to explain probably because the power of RSS is really something you need to experience first hand. We’re really into RSS — RSS power users may be an appropriate title...
Tips On Blogging With Students – The Edublogger
We’ve set up a Getting Started With Edublogs page on this blog to provide a central location for “how to” resources. Please let us know if you have any resources to add to this page. Meantime we receive many requests for tips on blogging with students so here is some advice from educators who are...
Getting More Out of Widgets! – The Edublogger
Wow – thanks everyone. Your response, support and feedback has been incredible! There are some really great topic areas to get us started. The Edublogger is about community, and helping each other. Perhaps you have already covered some topics in your own posts? Or you would like to cover a topic(s) in your own post(s)? Let...
A Beginner's Guide To Google Photos -- Store, organize, and share your photos for free!
What do you do with all the photos you're taking on your phone? Google Photos is an excellent free solution for storing, organizing, and sharing photos and videos. Let's get you started! This free guide walks you through the process of setting up and using Google Photos.
The Educator’s Guide To Using Video In Teaching And Learning – The Edublogger
Find out all about using video and live conferences in the classroom and remote learning. We go through using videos others have made, video conferences, screencasting, online video tools, and popular video techniques. You'll also find out exactly how to share a video with others or embed a video in your blog.
School Library Websites: Essential Features And Examples – The Edublogger
Whether you're part of an elementary school, high school, college, or university, your library provides a vital service, and its online presence is an integral part of that. Find out the 5 essential features of high-quality library websites, and explore 8 examples from primary school to university level.
Best of the Student Blogging Challenge: 10 Prompts – The Edublogger
The 25th Student Blogging Challenge was scheduled to begin in October, however it is on pause for now. But don't despair! If you're a student, teacher, or class interested in publishing online, we've got ideas for you to work on at your own pace. ...
150 Student Writing Prompts For Blogs, Digital Portfolios, Or Websites – The Edublogger
Want your students to write more in your class? Looking for prompts or ideas for student blogs, digital portfolios, or websites? We've got 150 prompts and ideas for students of all ages in all subject areas. Printable PDF eBook included.
International Dot Day: Get Involved! – The Edublogger
International Dot Day is held every year on or around September 15ish. This ultimate guide explains exactly what it is and how classes worldwide can participate. There are lots of examples from elementary, primary, and middle school classrooms to explore.