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Commenting, Learning Together & The Comment Challenge!

Always a tricky one when you’ve been busy “doing stuff”. Do you confess? Or hide the evidence? Mmmm probably should be responsible and come clean .
I’ve been thinking a lot about the importance of commenting on blogs because it’s a crucial aspect of blogging conversations for achieving the greatest learning. Trouble is factors [...]

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Here’s My First Five Tips For Writing Better Blog Posts — What Are Yours?

Ever had one of those days where the words just refuse to behave? Where it feels like every word you use is the wrong word? And you continuously rewrite the same sentences.
Worse Still! You finally finish the post believing it’s your best ever only to find no-one comments.
The unfortunate fact of blogging is [...]

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Blogging Tools To Help You Blog

This best of Web 2.0 series evolved from demonstrating the value and benefits of using twitter for your personal learning. So far we talked about Are You Getting The Most Out Of Your Web Browser? and Getting More Out Of Blogging And Edublogs.So it must be time to talk about blogging tools my twitter [...]

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Help! Missing Flash and Embed Media Buttons

Some of you have realised today that your Embed Flash swf Button and Media button in your Write Post Visual Editor are missing from your Edublogs dashboard.
Worse still you’re wondering what’s happen and how will you embed flash files and videos.
Why The Flash and Embed Media Button Are Missing
Since we can now directly [...]

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Getting More Out Of Blogging And Edublogs

It was great to see that Edublogs featured highly in “best 3 Web 2.0 tools”, as recommended by my Twitter network and our readers. Graham Wegner, John Larkin, Larry Ferlazzo, Rafa Ribas and NZ Chrissy all selected their blogging platform in their top 3; which is Edublogs for four of them.
Larry explained Edublogs is [...]

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Are You Getting The Most Out Of Your Web Browser?

As part of my ongoing series on Best Web 2.0 tools, so far I’ve covered Google Tools and How to use Your Twitter Network For Help & Providing Recommendations. Web browser featured highly in my Twitter network and readers “best 3 Web 2.0 tools” so let’s talk about web browsers.
Web Browsers
Your web browser, originally [...]

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Using Your Twitter Network For Help & Providing Their Recommendations

So how can you feel the true potential and benefit of using twitter? And how can you fully realize it’s impact on your personal learning?
As Frank commented “the secret is to create a sizable enough network for twitter to make sense or to “get” it”. Unfortunately most new users don’t have the sizable [...]

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Are You Twittering? Here’s How I Use Twitter

Do you use Twitter? Perhaps you’ve not heard of it or tried but didn’t get it? Let’s be honest, watching from the outside, Twitter like the the dumbest thing you’ve heard of “Why would anyone want to tell others what they are doing in 140 characters.”
And yet to dismiss Twitter is a mistake because it’s [...]

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