Comments on: Managing Students on Blogs…What Role Do You Assign Students? http://theedublogger.com/2009/10/12/managing-students-on-blogs-what-role-do-you-assign-students/ Tips, tricks, and help for educators and bloggers using technology Sat, 11 Feb 2012 19:51:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Top 100 technology blogs for teachers http://theedublogger.com/2009/10/12/managing-students-on-blogs-what-role-do-you-assign-students/comment-page-1/#comment-6969 Top 100 technology blogs for teachers Thu, 17 Jun 2010 18:25:24 +0000 http://theedublogger.edublogs.org/?p=1027#comment-6969 [...] how to avoid spam in your e-mail account, or tips on using web browsers). Recommended posts: “Managing Students on Blogs…What Role Do You Assign Students?,” “Week 1 – Create a Class Blog,” and “What Everybody Ought To Know [...] [...] how to avoid spam in your e-mail account, or tips on using web browsers). Recommended posts: “Managing Students on Blogs…What Role Do You Assign Students?,” “Week 1 – Create a Class Blog,” and “What Everybody Ought To Know [...]

]]> By: Sue Waters http://theedublogger.com/2009/10/12/managing-students-on-blogs-what-role-do-you-assign-students/comment-page-1/#comment-6944 Sue Waters Wed, 09 Jun 2010 07:53:05 +0000 http://theedublogger.edublogs.org/?p=1027#comment-6944 @mecslibrary Hi Carole, can you email me at support@edublogs.org with the blog URL that has problems and the username/password of a student that is having trouble as I need to log in as them to see what is happening. Thanks Sue @mecslibrary Hi Carole, can you email me at support@edublogs.org with the blog URL that has problems and the username/password of a student that is having trouble as I need to log in as them to see what is happening.

Thanks Sue

]]> By: mecslibrary http://theedublogger.com/2009/10/12/managing-students-on-blogs-what-role-do-you-assign-students/comment-page-1/#comment-6943 mecslibrary Tue, 08 Jun 2010 23:35:23 +0000 http://theedublogger.edublogs.org/?p=1027#comment-6943 Hi I'm running two class blogs and all students are contributors. In one, the students are able to add images, but in the other blog the students don't even see the Add image icon, and I have to change them all to author temporarily. The only differences I can see is the theme chosen, and one is not public yet. Any explanation? This is the blog that works OK- http://mecslib.globalstudent.org.au/ and my homepage is the one that doesn't. Carole Hi
I’m running two class blogs and all students are contributors. In one, the students are able to add images, but in the other blog the students don’t even see the Add image icon, and I have to change them all to author temporarily. The only differences I can see is the theme chosen, and one is not public yet.
Any explanation?
This is the blog that works OK- http://mecslib.globalstudent.org.au/
and my homepage is the one that doesn’t.
Carole

]]> By: Inviting students | Edgeworth Public School Quality Teaching Support http://theedublogger.com/2009/10/12/managing-students-on-blogs-what-role-do-you-assign-students/comment-page-1/#comment-6896 Inviting students | Edgeworth Public School Quality Teaching Support Tue, 25 May 2010 04:59:11 +0000 http://theedublogger.edublogs.org/?p=1027#comment-6896 [...] What role should I assign students? [...] [...] What role should I assign students? [...]

]]> By: Sue Waters http://theedublogger.com/2009/10/12/managing-students-on-blogs-what-role-do-you-assign-students/comment-page-1/#comment-6529 Sue Waters Thu, 25 Mar 2010 02:55:35 +0000 http://theedublogger.edublogs.org/?p=1027#comment-6529 @landrews, I'm sorry but maybe I'm misinterpreting what you are saying so please feel free to clarify if I have or if any of the other teachers here want to share their thoughts -- I would like to hear it. But you are using fake student IDs so that you have created their student IDs and doesn't link to real, identifying information supplied by the school. Plus you have use the gmail+ method where the emails are being sent to the one gmail account (for example, room19+samp@gmail.com, room19+sued@gmail.com) How can that be an issue for admin? The emails aren't going to the students and the student aren't identifiable. Please correct me if I have that information wrong. I may be wrong -- and I'm happy for other teachers to convince me of reasons why we would hid the profile page - but at this point in time I can't see any reason for hiding profile pages because it is important for password changes etc. @landrews, I’m sorry but maybe I’m misinterpreting what you are saying so please feel free to clarify if I have or if any of the other teachers here want to share their thoughts — I would like to hear it.

But you are using fake student IDs so that you have created their student IDs and doesn’t link to real, identifying information supplied by the school. Plus you have use the gmail+ method where the emails are being sent to the one gmail account (for example, room19+samp@gmail.com, room19+sued@gmail.com)

How can that be an issue for admin? The emails aren’t going to the students and the student aren’t identifiable. Please correct me if I have that information wrong.

I may be wrong — and I’m happy for other teachers to convince me of reasons why we would hid the profile page – but at this point in time I can’t see any reason for hiding profile pages because it is important for password changes etc.

]]> By: landrews http://theedublogger.com/2009/10/12/managing-students-on-blogs-what-role-do-you-assign-students/comment-page-1/#comment-6512 landrews Wed, 24 Mar 2010 01:50:48 +0000 http://theedublogger.edublogs.org/?p=1027#comment-6512 Hello. I have an interesting situation. I teach in an alt. ed. school for girls. Internet access is pretty restricted; students can't have access to email or social networking sites and there are alot of other web pages blocked. I did get permission to use a blog. I created generic student id names using my gmail address and assigned contributor status to each. However, when I tested what this allowed them to do AND see I was dismayed to find out that the gmail address assigned to that student id name is visible in the profile page. That is a no-no as far as admin goes. I understand that if they try to use it I will get the responses back. Is there any way to block students from seeing the profile page? Hello. I have an interesting situation. I teach in an alt. ed. school for girls. Internet access is pretty restricted; students can’t have access to email or social networking sites and there are alot of other web pages blocked. I did get permission to use a blog. I created generic student id names using my gmail address and assigned contributor status to each. However, when I tested what this allowed them to do AND see I was dismayed to find out that the gmail address assigned to that student id name is visible in the profile page. That is a no-no as far as admin goes. I understand that if they try to use it I will get the responses back. Is there any way to block students from seeing the profile page?

]]> By: MisterB http://theedublogger.com/2009/10/12/managing-students-on-blogs-what-role-do-you-assign-students/comment-page-1/#comment-6260 MisterB Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:13:44 +0000 http://theedublogger.edublogs.org/?p=1027#comment-6260 @Sue Waters, Thanks for the kind comments Sue. I like the idea of the 12 member team as well. I will check it out. Best, Robert @Sue Waters, Thanks for the kind comments Sue. I like the idea of the 12 member team as well. I will check it out.
Best, Robert

]]> By: Sue Waters http://theedublogger.com/2009/10/12/managing-students-on-blogs-what-role-do-you-assign-students/comment-page-1/#comment-6256 Sue Waters Wed, 03 Mar 2010 10:01:45 +0000 http://theedublogger.edublogs.org/?p=1027#comment-6256 @MisterB, I'm really glad that you have discovered that the RSS feed really does help you manage it better. Your Campus site really is coming along well and you should be really proud. I think this statement 'luddite-inclined friends – you have to be willing to get messy with technology at first' is so totally true. Take a chance. Be forgiving on yourself by accepting you won't always get it right and be willing to make the occasional mistake. Nothing was ever invented right the first time -- what was it? 1000 different ways until they got the Dyson vaccum cleaner right? BTW one of the blogs on the class blog list is interesting and might be a good concept for you to consider. They have set up a team blog of 12 students who are responsible for being the media people for the school and report on all the cool stuff that is happening. I really like that concept! @MisterB, I’m really glad that you have discovered that the RSS feed really does help you manage it better.

Your Campus site really is coming along well and you should be really proud.

I think this statement ‘luddite-inclined friends – you have to be willing to get messy with technology at first’ is so totally true. Take a chance. Be forgiving on yourself by accepting you won’t always get it right and be willing to make the occasional mistake. Nothing was ever invented right the first time — what was it? 1000 different ways until they got the Dyson vaccum cleaner right?

BTW one of the blogs on the class blog list is interesting and might be a good concept for you to consider. They have set up a team blog of 12 students who are responsible for being the media people for the school and report on all the cool stuff that is happening. I really like that concept!

]]> By: MisterB http://theedublogger.com/2009/10/12/managing-students-on-blogs-what-role-do-you-assign-students/comment-page-1/#comment-6242 MisterB Sat, 27 Feb 2010 14:11:34 +0000 http://theedublogger.edublogs.org/?p=1027#comment-6242 As a follow up to my initial comment, I want to thank Sue and the above comment authors for suggesting the RSS feed, which I have been using with great success. I even now let my students have "Protected" conversations for more private interactions. These do show up as "protected" on the feed, but I can see them easily by going into the dashboard of the student and looking at Recent Comments. Our class blog has grown exponentially this year and I'm extremely satisfied with the way Edublogs/Wordpress is set up to allow so much manipulation of user roles. It took some amount of time to get comfortable with the entire interface, but as I tell my luddite-inclined friends - you have to be willing to get messy with technology at first. There is no substitute for experience. As a follow up to my initial comment, I want to thank Sue and the above comment authors for suggesting the RSS feed, which I have been using with great success. I even now let my students have “Protected” conversations for more private interactions. These do show up as “protected” on the feed, but I can see them easily by going into the dashboard of the student and looking at Recent Comments.

Our class blog has grown exponentially this year and I’m extremely satisfied with the way Edublogs/Wordpress is set up to allow so much manipulation of user roles. It took some amount of time to get comfortable with the entire interface, but as I tell my luddite-inclined friends – you have to be willing to get messy with technology at first. There is no substitute for experience.

]]> By: Sue Waters http://theedublogger.com/2009/10/12/managing-students-on-blogs-what-role-do-you-assign-students/comment-page-1/#comment-6238 Sue Waters Sat, 27 Feb 2010 01:05:31 +0000 http://theedublogger.edublogs.org/?p=1027#comment-6238 @homeworkman223, Can you give me your blog URL so I can check it for you? @homeworkman223, Can you give me your blog URL so I can check it for you?

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