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Who is that girl? Who is that guy? Is she a model? Are these real people or is this just stock photography? This post is part of our series on using photos on blogs: The first post was about where to get free photos for  your blog. Next, we talked about stock photography and why we [...]

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Critical Thinking Images on websites is our third episode in our series about using photos on blogs. Use free photos on your classroom blog to make your writing (and your students’ writing) more interesting. What is stock photography? Why did I decide to go with Big Stock Photo on this blog. Today’s post is to help teachers get [...]

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This post about Big Stock Photo and stock photography is the second part of our series on using photos on blogs. The first post was on finding free photos to use in your classroom blog using the creative Commons filter on Flickr. Today’s post is about using stock photos on blogs. (I use Big Stock [...]

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This post is part of a series on Using Photos on Blogs This is part 1: Using free photos on your classroom blog. Coming up next is part 2: Using Stock Photos on your class website… A picture is worth a thousand words. Which would your students find easier to read: a textbook filled with [...]

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Lots of teachers are starting to wonder how to create an online presence for their courses. Teachers want to be able to create websites for students and parents to access at home. There are several options for teachers to create class websites: Your school board may offer website template pages that you can modify and [...]

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We love WordPress. It’s our favorite tool to create professional looking class websites. Last week, we were helping one of our colleagues set up her class website for kindergarten. One of the things that she wanted was to a little box at the top of her website where she could post important information for parents [...]

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Imagine a world where people don’t judge you based on your race, your gender, the way you look, or the clothes you wear… Instead, you’re judged based on the quality of your ideas and how well you’ve expressed them. That’s one of the potential benefits in having your students use an anonymous pseudonym when writing [...]

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We love using technology in the classroom: clickers, data projectors, prezi, netbooks, online literature circles and of course classroom websites and student blogging. And, we love WordPress. It’s our blogging software of choice for the classroom and we use it for all of our professional websites and school projects. If you set up your own self [...]

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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 [...]

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Update: We’re no longer with pSek. We did set up a multi-user version of WordPress for our class blogs on pSek, but in the end, we found we needed more than shared hosting. Right now, we use BlueHost (shared hosting) for this classroom technology blog, but we use VPS.net (virtual private servers) for most of our larger school [...]

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