Problem! You want to use Creative Commons images with your students but can’t access Flickr because its blocked at your school.
What options does this leave you? Especially if it needs to be student-safe. Unfortunately this scenario is faced by many educators as highlighted by tilgunas comment on Finding and Adding Creative [...]
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Finding and Adding Creative Commons Images To Your Blog Posts
Finding the perfect image to enhance your blog post can be frustrating and time consuming however there are tools that can make this task faster.
This post explains how to find and add creative commons Flickr images to blog posts. Make sure you also refer to Copyright and Using Images in Blog Posts for an [...]
Copyright and Using Images in Blog Posts
Adding an image to your blog post can make a big difference on how easy the post is on the eyes. Good use of images grab reader’s attention.
I really wanted to include use of images in my Here’s My First Five Tips For Writing Better Blog Posts — What Are Yours? post but it really [...]
Differences Between Blog Pages and Posts
Are you confused about the point of a blog page? Or perhaps you’ve been trying to separate topics or classes on your blog using pages but are struggling to get it to work how you would like.
Deciding when to use blog posts vs pages can be puzzling. With numerous questions on pages in [...]
Share your Blogging Experience and Tips For Educators New To Blogging
When you’ve never blogged it can be hard to visualise how to use blogs with students.
I like to stress that the most important aspect of blogging, and where the most learning happens, is in the conversations. So I’m hoping you will write a comment on this post or write your own post (which links [...]
Looking For The Latest “How To” Information For Using Edublogs?
At the end of May, Edublogs upgraded to the latest version of Wordpress. Which is excellent because we now have lots of great new features in our dashboard. Unfortunately the changes meant our dashboards look quite different to the previous version of Wordpress and “how to” guides, manuals and videos had to be updated.
Updating [...]
The Basics of Using Google Analytics
Lets be honest! Using Google Analytics can be incredibly confusing because it provides so much information, in so many categories, on how people interact with your web site. Worse still Google Analytics can make you feel really depressed if you misinterpret your statistics.
So lets get our hands dirty and learn the basics of how [...]
Setting Up Google Analytics on Your Blog
Wondering if people visit your blog and what interests them?
There are statistics tools that you can install on your blog that help answer these questions. Problem is working out which tools to use when you first start blogging can be overwhelming because there is so much information on too many options.
So let me explain [...]


