Many teachers are blogging in the classroom. It’s authentic writing that hooks struggling readers and writers, especially boys.
However, there is one huge flaw with using WordPress or Edublogs in the classroom. Students can read unmoderated comments when they are logged into the edublog or class blog before the comments get moderated and published online. They [...]
How to Hide Unmoderated Comments from Students in WordPress
November 24th, 2008 · 5 Comments · Uncategorized
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Locking Down Your EduBlog to Prevent Unauthorized Access
June 9th, 2008 · 4 Comments · security
There are two situations where you might want to restrict access to your educational blog to just a few specific computers.
First, you might want to restrict the entire blog so it can only be accessed by people using school computers.
Second, you might want to restrict the login pages of your blog, so that students can [...]
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How to Start a Classroom Blog, Edublog or School Website
June 8th, 2008 · 61 Comments · Classroom Blogs
4 quick and easy ways to set up a classroom website, an educational blog (edublog), or even a school website.
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6 Reasons To Get Your Students Blogging
June 6th, 2008 · 12 Comments · Classroom Blogs
More and more teachers are blogging in the classroom. And, why not! There are a lot of reasons to consider blogging in the classroom.
It gives your students an authentic purpose to write. The idea that their stories will be published online for the world to see may motivate them to do their best.
Students have a [...]
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Blogging in the Classroom
May 1st, 2008 · 9 Comments · Uncategorized
Blogs (weblogs) are a great social media tool to communicate with the world, publish your work, and to interact with people around the world. According to Technorati.com (which is the Google of blogs), there are currently over 112.8 million blogs in the world today.
A blog is like your own personal soapbox from which you can [...]



