My world on the web
As we talk about Social Networking 2.0, I wonder what safe spaces we are providing students to experiment and explore?
In this article, we’ll explain why your website is a key part of your school library experience. Then we’ll discuss 5 essential features you should include when creating or updating your school library site. We’ve also got 8 examples of great school library websites and blogs to share with you.
The trick making your library’s website or blog as engaging and useful as possible is to include these 5 essentials:
- Clear site navigation
- Regularly updated content
- Consistent design
- Visible contact details
- Accessible design
She also provides a useful collection of examples.
Classroom blogging can be a powerful and effective way to enhance the learning experience for your students. However, if you’re new to starting a blog, there are some important things to consider before jumping in.
Let’s recap the ten mistakes to avoid with your classroom blog:
- Forgetting to obtain permission
- Making participation optional
- Failing to share with an audience
- Publishing inconsistently
- Not respecting copyright
- Forgetting to use or update pages
- Not having clear grading guidelines
- Ignoring categories and tags
- Overlooking accessibility
- Choosing the wrong platform
There are two types of bloggers.
One has a never-ending list of blog post ideas but just can’t find the time to write them all. The other wants to write more blog posts but is stuck for ideas.
Which type of blogger are you?
If you’re the latter, you’re in luck. This post offers you 7 ideas to help you find inspiration for your future blog posts.
These ideas apply to both student and teacher bloggers.
Greg McVerry (quickthoughts.jgregorymcverry.com)Been trying to convince @edublogs folks to add SemPress theme and IndieWeb plugins.
To help educators share Edublogs with colleagues or parents, we’ve introduced some new resources. Check out the Google Slides presentation and PDFs that explain what Edublogs is all about.,To help educators share Edublogs with colleagues or parents, we’ve introduced some new resources. Check out the Google Slides presentation and PDFs that explain what Edublogs is all about.
Are you an educator with a blog? Would you like a bigger audience and a stronger professional network? This practical post goes through five things you can do to share and market your blog.
Right now, we’re looking for a team of adult volunteer commenters. Can you help?
To you, from Edublogs gift tag The festive season is upon us and hopefully you have a break to look forward to. The holidays can be a great time to not only put your feet up and recharge, but learn something new as well!
As a gift to all teachers, we’d like to offer a free Edublogs Pro subscriptio…
In this post, we’ll show you 10 ways you can introduce your class to blogging.
This is the inspiring story of college student, Myles Zhang. Myles was introduced to blogging as a high school student and since then his online portfolio has grown and flourished.
There’s something equally powerful (and I feel democratic) about a simple web-link that opens up a world of information to anyone in the world. I feel that the world is becoming increasingly digital. Building and managing my website (several, in fact) has hopefully helped prepare me to more actively contribute to this digital world.
Although he touches on the what associated with an authentic audience and the how linked to blogging, the most powerful message in this post is the why. What Zhang highlights is the personal nature of such a project. Although we may want to dictate to everyone to do a particular thing, the individual interests much not be forgotten.
Google Photos is an excellent free solution for storing, organizing, and sharing photos and videos. Let’s get you started with this step-by-step beginner’s guide!
A student run newspaper is one type of blog that can offer many advantages for students. This post showcases an impressive newspaper run by the students at Zurich International School in Switzerland (ZIS).
@dogtrax been poking around for a bit and can’t figure out any way to add the #IndieWeb plumbing to @edublogs. You could (and should) manually put an h-card on your home page, but since @edublogs do not provide users with the freedom of adding plugins to WordPress you won’t be able to add any of the cool webmentions or have post marked up with h-entry to allow you to play.
I wonder what would be involved in making it work? They have added plugins before, what would an IndieBlogs plugin look like? My concern is that this might mean for primary aged blogs?
I see real prospect for something like Micro.Blogs in schood, but again there is the issue around Rel=Me.
I imagine that until it is built into the core then it will be a hard ask.
Like the idea of connecting with classes around the world but not sure where to begin? Our new guide breaks down different entry points with lots of tips and ideas!
I have observed differences in how student blogs work in a variety of areas. There appears to be a spectrum in at least six key areas
Having said this, she is also mindful that every school has its own context and exists at a different point on the continuum of six aspects: duration, privacy, content, reflection, quality and control.
