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Get Your Popcorn Organised! Edublogs Live Web Events Are Ready To Roll!

Wondering where we are at with organizing Edublogs free live events?  Good news is we’re getting there!
Here’s what we’ve set up so far:

Free Live Web Events! page where you can access the Elluminate link to the sessions, read about the session topics, find out when they are scheduled and leave feedback on topic suggestions etc
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Check Out These Cool Ideas From Class blogs!

Love showcasing what’s happening on different blogs (especially student and class) and I know The Edublogger’s readers like checking them for ideas.
So here’s some of the cool and creative stuff I saw while updating the class blogs page:

Ms Michetti has been encouraging her students to expand their blog’s community and audience by connecting with student [...]

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The Edublogger’s Student Competition!

The 2009 Student Blogging Challenge is now nearly half way through and the students have been working REALLY hard on the weekly challenges!  Currently 52 class blogs and 150 individual students blogs from 13 different countries are participating.
To celebrate the success of the challenge while also creating an opportunity to collect examples of student work [...]

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Taking The Agony Out Of Using Custom Image Headers

Are you like me?  Driven by a strong desire to add that individual touch to your blog using a custom image header?  But through not fault of your own designing your own image header always turns out BAD?
There is a solution! Instead of trying to design your own image header visit Free Web Page Headers.  [...]

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Interested In Free Live Online Sessions?

When you first starting using Web 2.0 tools with your students it can feel scary.  So I’ve been thinking of ways to help out teachers.
What I decided was it would be good if we could offer to provide live online presentations where some sessions cover different aspects of blogging while others focus on using a [...]

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Can You Help REDUCE The Frustrations Of Posting Comments Too Quickly!

What are your solution(s) to the following problem?
If students posts their comments on the same blog within a few seconds of each other some of the students can end up losing their comments.  They will get a warning message and when they return to the post their comment is gone.

What happens is although the students [...]

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How To Keep Your Hair (and Sanity) When Doing Blog Makeovers!

Ever felt like you’re going slightly totally crazy?
You upload a nice new custom image header.  Or you rename your blog categories!  But when you visit your blog site these new changes haven’t appeared and you see the old version of your blog.
Rest assured you aren’t crazy!
But until you understand the culprit lies with your browser’s [...]

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And the winners of The Edublogger’s Birthday Celebration Competition are

And the winners of The Edublogger’s Birthday Celebration Competition are …….

Building a better blog and having fun doing it!!! by Ashley (student blogger)
Blogging for ESL Students in Taiwan by Jared
Using threaded comments to build a writing community in your classroom by Alice Mercer
Helpful Tips for Setting up a Classroom Blog by Errin Gregory
20 Days to [...]

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