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There are lots of good trusted companies that will register domain names for you. They range in price from a few dollars to fifty dollars per year.
But, be careful. Often times, the refund policy on a domain name ranges from no refund to a few days. Different companies have different special offers, but always read [...]

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UPDATE (Dec 2009): Why we’re thinking of leaving Bluehost.
Paying for a web host to run your own self-hosted WordPress blog is not for everybody. In fact, it’s for very few teachers out there.
If you’re new to blogging, start out with a free WordPress blog, either at WordPress.com or Edublogs.org. Try it out, create a school [...]

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How does your classroom blog rank in the blogosphere? Where does your class website rank? Is anybody even out there?
As teachers, we’re focused on helping our students to polish their work. Some of us set up a classroom blog so that our students have an authentic reason to write: to publish their work online to [...]

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We’re putting this educational blog on hold for the summer.
Teaching in Ontario means that we have summer vacation in July and August. (Not necessarily a given… teachers and students are still slugging away at the curriculum in Australia where it’s currently their winter.)
So we’re going to have to put some of our projects on hold, [...]

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