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What Do You Most Want To Learn More About? [Poll Results]

Over the past few weeks I’ve run a poll here at The Edublogger asking readers what they most want to learn more about. I’ve run this to help plan future posts while demonstrating how to use polls on blogs.
Two poll tools were used; so readers could compare the look of a PollDaddy poll with [...]

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Share Your Tips On Writing ‘About Pages’ For Class Blogs!

Oh NO……forget class blogs ! Really need YOUR help to make amends to all class blogs!
What Happened!
My Have You Set Up Your About Page? post provided tips on About pages for student and adult bloggers but totally forgot about Class blogs.
Wouldn’t have realised the neglect without Angela Kulikowski’s comment:
“One challenge I have [...]

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Have You Set Up Your About Page?

Have you set up your About page? Or taken the time to review what you’ve written on this page?
NO! Well make this a priority because your About page is extremely important to new readers. It’s where readers find out more about you and your blog. Readers often use it to decide whether [...]

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The Student Blogging Competition Is About To Begin: Have You JOINED?

The Student Blogging Competition starts this week!!!
So far there’s over 100 school students and 8 class blogs from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Portugal and USA involved.  The competition is now also multilingual — with the weekly tasks written in both English and Portuguese.
You don’t need your own blog! You can do the activities using your [...]

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What Do Your Readers Really SEE?

Simple facts from the stats — for my personal blog Mobile Technology in TAFE.
The Facts

Approx. 50 people visit my blog site each day.
Main web browsers used for viewing my blog are FireFox (52.93 % ), Internet Explorer (39.93 %) and Safari (4.87 %).
Approx. 750 people subscribe to my blog and read my posts using a [...]

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Adding A ClustrMaps to Your Blog Sidebar Using The ClustrMaps Widget

As Britt Watwood commented ClustrMaps is a “must-have” widget for class and student blogs because it reminds students that they are part of a global voice and demonstrates how interconnected we all are. So here’s how to set up a ClustrMaps on your blog.
About ClustrMaps
ClustrMaps is a free thumbnail hit counter map widget that [...]

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Share Your Advice on “Must-Have” Widgets for Class and Student Blogs

Deciding which widgets to add to your blog sidebar is hard!  There is just TOO much choice…
So when Chrissy asked for advice on any “must-haves” widgets to include on her students new Room202’s class blog I thought this is an excellent opportunity for us to share ideas to help make the task of choosing widgets [...]

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Learning Together and The Interactive Whiteboards Challenge!

Do you use an Interactive Whiteboard (IWB)? Are you interested in exploring new ways of getting more out of using your IWB?
Why not join the Interactive Whiteboard Challenge to collaborate with other educators to improve your IWB skills while participating in discussion about how they can best be used. (Photo used with permission from [...]

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