Monthly Archives: March 2009

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

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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 are on different computers their comments are from the same IP address.   The blog detects the comments are coming from the same IP addresses and says this might be someone posting spam comments.  It’s a feature to prevent blogs from being spammed.

Please share your tips:

  1. How do you get your students to slow down when posting comments on the same blog?
  2. What method(s) do you use to prevent student comments from being lost?
  3. What other advice do you give students when leaving comments on other people’s blogs?

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

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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 cache and learn how to clear your browser cache it will drive you crazy.

What Is A Browser Cache?

When you visit a web page for the first time web browsers such as Internet Explorer, FireFox, Flock and Safari save a copy of that page and its graphics on your computer.  The next time you visit an ‘already visited web page’ it grabs the saved copy of the page from your computer’s hard drive. This makes the page load and render faster because it doesn’t have to grab all the information from the web server that hosts the web page.

This ‘saved copy on your computer’s hard drive’ is known as your browser cache.  It’s normally a good feature unless you need to view the latest version of a web page.

How To Clear Your Web Browser

Web browsers do vary in terms of what method you use to clear their cache.  However the fastest method is to use the shortcut key Ctrl + F5 (press and hold the Ctrl key while pressing F5).  This will reload the web page you are viewing while clearing the cache for most web browsers on Windows including FireFox, Flock and Internet Explorer 7.

On a Mac the short cut keys to reload and clear cache are CMD + R (press and hold the CMD key while pressing R) – thanks Patrick Malley for realizing I had forgotten instructions for Macs.

So the next time you make changes to your blog’s design and are still seeing the old version of your blog remember to try clearing your cache.

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

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

  1. Building a better blog and having fun doing it!!! by Ashley (student blogger)
  2. Blogging for ESL Students in Taiwan by Jared
  3. Using threaded comments to build a writing community in your classroom by Alice Mercer
  4. Helpful Tips for Setting up a Classroom Blog by Errin Gregory
  5. 20 Days to Better Blogging with Children by Joy Simpson
  6. SSR and Voice Thread by Paul Turtola
  7. How to embed a Jing Screencast into your Edublogs Blog by Nathan Toft
  8. Are you a quality Commenter? by Catie (student blogger)
  9. Images in blog posts by Miss Wyatt
  10. Tips For Building a Blog Audience by Nicholas (student blogger)
  11. Happy Birthday Edublogger – building your blog audience by Hayden (student blogger)
  12. Favorite Blog Widgets by Mallorie (student blogger)
  13. Getting Educators involved with Web 2.0 by Jody Bowie
  14. Getting educators involved with using web technology by Lisa Dumicich

Congratulations to all winners!

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FINAL THOUGHTS

Thanks to everyone who entered!  Choosing the winners was incredibly hard due to so many excellent entries.

Please take the time to check out the winners posts because each provides excellent tips, ideas and advice.  You can check all the entries in the pingback section of this post!

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