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• You can’t share folders in Google Docs which means if you have a large number of files to share, you have to do it individually. #
• (You also have to upload a large number of files separately in Google Docs – you can’t ctrl or shift select multiple items to upload.) #
• If you publish your Google Doc spreadsheet to get a URL, can you use that to access your Google Doc spreadsheet from Microsoft Excel? #
• You could use Google Docs’ forms to create an online assessment tool. The answers get automatically put into a spreadsheet for easy access. #
• If students use Google Docs’ forms to do a test, do they get the full collaboration power that they would get from a regular google doc? #
• What happen if two google docs have the exact same name when they get shared? #
• The Panoramic Analytics Gadget in Google Docs lets you pivot tables but it’s nowhere near as powerful as MS Excel. #
• MDG sells a tablet netbook for students, but you can only buy it online, their stores don’t carry it, and they have no return policy. #
• Google Docs lets you track changes in a document through a RSS feed but if you install Google Apps on an IP address, the feed won’t work. #
• Google Docs in the classroom records every revision your students make. Great to see who does the work; bad if cyber vandalism is permanent. #
• If your classroom blog uses WordPress, there are 5 user roles (i.e. admin, editor, author, contributor, subscriber) with set capabilities. #
• Our students are contributors on our blog. Normally, they can’t read private posts, but the Capability Manager plugin adds that feature. #
• We set our students’ work as private posts so other students who are logged in can read them and comment.With permission, we publish online. #
• Our classroom blog (self-hosted wordpress blog) gets bogged down when multiple students leave comments at the same time. #
• How can we randomize which post shows on top? Our students are providing peer feedback, but the first post is getting most of the comments. #
• Can you bulk create twitter accounts for your students? #
• Google is everywhere in the classroom. Kids don’t say, I’ll search it online. They talk about googling it. Will bing be the next google? #
• Just did that Miley Cyrus dance with our Grade 8 class
  http://bit.ly/12HoQq #
• Is there a way to track commission junction affiliate link conversions using google analytics? #
• Google apps doesn’t have a way for you to keep track of when your students revise their work. (Google Docs has a RSS feed, but not on Apps.) #
• When we use wikispaces or wordpress as our platform for student collaboration, we can get email updates when comments or revisions are made. #
• Think about CJ affiliate tracking with Google Analytics:http://www.seoracle.com/google-analytics-how-to-tutorial/analytics-redirect-tracking #
• The Wordpress Download monitor plugin lets you post your school newsletters and keep track of how many times they are viewed. #
• The Wordpress Download monitor plugin can also organize your downloads by category: i.e. newsletter, calendar, which makes for easy posting. #
• Is there a plugin to make some comments on WordPress private (i.e. so that only your students could see their marks)? #
• Can you block certain IPs from getting recorded by Google Analytics? (So that you don’t count yourself, even if you don’t log in?) #
• We’re thinking about switching from BlueHost to 1 and 1 Internet Hosting. #
• 1 and 1 Internet Hosting offers you free domains with their plan, but you need to pay $19/month & they limit how many domains you can have. #
• Checking out Google Desktop – search for stuff stored on your computer or the internet… is it safe? #
• The Google Desktop sidebar widget shows an RSS feed. You could get updates whenever your students collaborate on their Google docs. #
• Google Docs sidebar gadgets look a lot like the Windows vista sidebar gadgets. #
• Working too much? Saying “no” to people really means saying “yes” to you. #
• Google desktop show the search results of your computer on Google Web Search result pages but your personal results are private from Google. #
• The semi-private comments WordPress plugin will allow students to only see their comments and the admin’s comments on their class blog. #
• Looking for a WordPress plugin so only the student user who is logged in is able to read my mark comment on their post on our class blog. #
• Our school computers are quite slow. We use a very basic WordPress theme on our class blog, but the clustermaps widget is slowing us down. #
• SEO Smart Links WordPress plugin seems to be a neat way to automatically add your affiliate links to user-defined keywords in your posts. #
• Google adsense section targeting allows you to suggest sections of your blog that you want google ads to pay attention to when matching ads. #
• <!– google_ad_section_start –> Stuff you want your Google Ads to match <!– google_ad_section_end –> #
• There is a whisper wordpress plugin that might let us mark our students’ blog posts without letting the whole world see their marks. #
• On a class blog, you might want to list links to random student posts at the bottom instead of related posts which will always be the same. #
• Can’t find a WordPress plugin that lets us batch-publish our students posts which are “pending review” as “private” published posts. #
• WordPress 2.7 allows you to select all of your student posts and edit them at once (i.e. publishing them all as private posts.) #
• Two people can’t edit the same WordPress post at the same time. (Sometimes even if they log off, you still can’t edit their post for a bit.) #
• The Whisper WordPress plugin will let us leave private comments on our students’ posts so only they can see their marks. #
• But, is there a way that only certain users can leave whisper messages when using the Whisper WordPress plugin? #
• Is there a way to show only the posts you wrote? Our students sign in to our class blog, but then have troubles finding their posts. #
• Trying the Authors Widget plugin to show all of our students in the sidebar of our class blog for easy access to their work. #
• It feels like our classroom blog (WordPress) loads faster on Google Chrome than on Internet Explorer but its probably our imagination. #
• Google Analytics for WordPress plugin lets you automatically tag and track which links your visitors are using when they leave your site. #
• Checking your outbound click stats on Google Analytics: http://bit.ly/YFYja #
• Our classroom blog (WordPress blog) might actually be faster on Google Chrome because WordPress can use Google Gears. #
• Google Wave. What is it? #
• 25 ways to geneate organic traffic: http://bit.ly/tHgo2 #
• Does a wordpress.com blog get more traffic from people clicking those tags on WordPress? #
• Tags that are popular on WordPress.com:
  technology, Reviews, blog, design, bloggin, internet, social media, blogs #
• You can’t use Google Analytics on a free WordPress.com account: http://bit.ly/UflLQ #
• Which one should I use? WordPress.com, WordPress.org, Google Docs, Wikispaces, or Blogger for my classroom blog / website? #
• Using twitter in the classroom: Can you import a list of twitter accounts to follow so your students can follow each other? #
• If you create your student twitter accounts with generic emails, could you give the students the addresses to copy/paste and find each other #
• You lose some formatting when you upload your MS Word document to Google Docs. #
• If you use WordPress for your class blog, it’s easy to keep a specific post (i.e. instructions) at the top of your site: just make it sticky #
• Cookie stuffing your affiliate links with an automatic popunder window seems a little black hat since your visitor didn’t click on any links #
• Register your classroom blog with the various social networks (twitter, facebook, blogcatalog, mybloglog) to get more visibility and traffic #
• You can display Google Analytics traffic data directly on your WordPress blog using the Analyticator plugin by Sprial Web Consulting #

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