Comments on: Why You Shouldn’t Write Your Posts Using Word

By: Pakistan Talkshows and Interviews

Pakistan Talkshows and Interviews — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 02:58:39 +0000

most of the times I use on page editors like HTML editor available.

By: 15 Blogging Tips for Students and Teachers | Integrating Technology in the Primary Classroom

Wed, 17 Aug 2011 11:15:27 +0000

[...] 14. Don’t copy and paste from MS Word: If you’ve been blogging for a while you may have experienced the dreaded consequence of copying and pasting text from Microsoft Word into a blog post. It is a big no no! Doing this can give you bad code which can ruin the layout of your blog. If you do want to copy and paste from Word you either need to paste the text into the HTML section of your editor or paste the text into Notepad (or the Mac equivalent) and then copy and paste that text into your post editor. If you want to read more about this, check out Sue Waters’ post here. [...]

By: 10 15 Blogging Tips for Students and Teachers | Integrating Technology in the Primary Classroom

Wed, 17 Aug 2011 11:11:56 +0000

By: Be part of the Cloud

Be part of the Cloud — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 09:57:54 +0000

I think you never should use a Word-like program, they all screw up the layout.

By: Sue Waters

Sue Waters — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 08:19:00 +0000

@marknair59, This latest version of WordPress that Edublogs now uses does automatically delete the bad code from Word — so that definitely has helped.

In terms of your other question it really depends on what you are wanting them to do in the assignment. It may be a combination of them writing reflections on a blog and writing the final product on a wiki is the best option. However it is hard to know without more specific details in terms of what you are waiting them to write.

By: marknair59

marknair59 — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:08:14 +0000

@Gabriela Sellart,

Gabriella: I’m just getting started with wikis and blogs. I want to have my kids post word documents as homework, rather than turn in paper. I read most of the comments about using word, but your use of google docs sounded interesting. If you were going to have kids create lengthy papers, how would you have them turn them in? On google docs? On a wiki? Posting word docs to a blog doesn’t sound like it works. Anyone else want to comment. I’m new, and need help.

Thanks

Mark Nair

By: marknair59

marknair59 — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:10:21 +0000

Sue:

Obviously a problem with posing to blogs with word, though comments above offer solutions. Here’s MY problem. I want students to do some large projects like a long paper, powerpoint, stuff like that. I have an RSS feed on my own blog so I can track when my students post to it. Thus, potentially I can track submissions by students. Wrting a paper on a blog seems ridiculous. One reader comments about a program that probably removes code, and allows you to post. I don’t want to do anything until I get this figured out. Any suggestions.

Thanks

Mark Nair
New web 2.0 learner

By: mbrehm

mbrehm — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:38:43 +0000

Hi
I am new here, but I’m sure glad that this was the very first post to my blog. It actually solved a dilemna I had copying a word document into my Yola web page. Yes, it has to do with code.

I just want to thank everyone for writing because you just helped me to avoid some future frustration with my highschool classes blogging. You guys are marvelous. Thanks

mbrehm in Harvey, LA
Computer User from the Atari and Commodore 64 days!!

By: grw04002

grw04002 — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:25:38 +0000

@philhart, I did literally nothing. Typed it in the newest version of Word for Mac and pasted to edublogs. Clicked HTML to see coding… lo and behold, no coding!

By: Sue Waters

Sue Waters — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 08:34:42 +0000

@Michele Can you give me the link to the page you mean so I can check it out?