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We just signed up with a $10 per month business plan with pSek to host our WordPress MU sites and so far, we’ve been impressed with their technical support.
Over the past two weeks, we’ve placed a few support tickets to help us get our WordPress site up and running. (We set the priorities in the [...]

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There are lots of places you can set up a free classroom blog: edublogs, wordpress, and wikispaces.
Of course, “free” always comes at a price and there are always limitations with using these free services. In the end, we decided to run the (free) open-source WordPress software off of our own webhost space to unleash the full potential [...]

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We’re just creating our new classroom website for the 2009-2010 year. We had it up and running in about 15 minutes by setting up WordPress 2.8.4 (3 minutes to create the site; 12 minutes to cut and paste the content from our Meet the Teacher newsletter.)

How to Make a Class Website
Should I use Google Sites or [...]

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We use WordPress as the engine behind our school website and classroom blogs. It’s great because you can log in to the class website online and use the web interface to add contest to your website.
But WordPress also allows you to set up various levels of access to your site by changing the user role. [...]

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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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We’re working on our free ebook with step-by-step instructions on how to set up a school website or classroom blog using WordPress, and hit a minor snag: Our edublogs.org account was down.
Not a big deal, but what if you were in the computer lab and wanted to get your students to comment on each other’s [...]

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Are you the teacher responsible for your school’s website? Perhaps you have a classroom blog.
Either way, there will be times that you’re trying out new things on your site that you don’t want the rest of the world to see. Here are some scenarios:

You’re flipping through a few new themes and layouts and you don’t [...]

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We’re writing our ebook with step-by-step instructios on how to make a school website or classroom blog and quickly remembering why we like self-hosted WordPress blogs so much.
Lots of teachers start their classroom blogs using a free WordPress blog or Edublogs account. And quite frankly, that’s the right place to start:

It’s free.
There’s a lot of [...]

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Geotagging is the art and science of adding geographic information to stuff on the net. It’s interesting for teachers because it gives you a way to show your students who is reading their work published on the internet. Or, at least, where they’re from.

Things you need to know about IP Addresses – Your Address on [...]

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4 quick and easy ways to set up a classroom website, an educational blog (edublog), or even a school website.

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