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Making It Easier For Your Intended Audience To Read Posts!

Encouraging parents or other teachers to read your blog(s) can be hard work! Not surprising when you consider reading blogs and writing comments is a totally foreign concept to most of them.
What’s needed is to look at the problem from another angle. Instead of focusing on how Internet savvy people read a blog [...]

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Ideas For Student Bloggings From….How Do You Do What You Do!

Said it before and will say it AGAIN! Most great conversations and learning happens in the comments and not the post. But reading all comments on blogs can overwhelming so I thought I would help out.
Here are just some of the ideas I’ve gained from conversations on Student Blogging…..How Do You Do What [...]

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50+ Ways To Create Digital Stories With Students

Creating stories using web tools is fun and engaging for student while also teaching them new skills. Best of all you can embed them in blog posts to grab readers; including something a bit different makes reading posts more interesting.
Web Tools For Creating Stories
To make the task easier we have Alan Levine’s 50+ Ways [...]

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Parents Comments Count!

Comments are incredible motivators for student bloggers. Shame most parents and families rarely leave comments on student blogs.  Yet a thoughtful and encouraging comment from a parent can mean so much to their child.
Can you please leave a comment (or write a post) to share your thoughts and tips:

What do you think are the main [...]

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Managing Comments and Posts On Student Blogs Using Google Reader

It’s important, when managing student blogs, to be able to quickly read all their latest posts and any new comments.
Sure you could visit each individual blog but that is incredibly time consuming. The better way, which saves time, is to bring the posts and comments to you using their RSS feed.
Here is how you [...]

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Student Blogging…..How Do You Do What You Do?

There’s more than one way to skin a cat. Just as there are numerous ways to engage your students in using blogs.
Since we all learn better by sharing I’m hoping that you will share your experiences of student blogging by leaving a comment or write a post about:

What are the procedures and steps you [...]

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What Do Your Students Really Think About Blogging?

The student and class bloggers have been working hard and submitted some incredible entries for The Edublogger’s Student Competition.  Strongly recommend you read through the comments to follow links across to their posts.  Definitely will be showcasing these posts over the next few weeks.
To get us started I’m hoping you can help out!
Hayley and [...]

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