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Creating And Uploading Your Comment Avatar

Your avatar is an important part of your online identity.
It’s an online representation of you that shows up in places such as where you leave comments or forum posts and is part of how others visualize who you are.
Most schools don’t allow students to use pictures of themselves on blogs or websites.  Instead of photos [...]

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Updated: 100 Edublogs Themes Review To Make Choosing Your Next Theme Easier

This is an update version of  The 100 Edublogs Themes Separated Into Categories To Make Choosing Your Next Theme Easier post!
Given there are 100 Edublogs themes to choose from ranging from those that can’t be altered to themes that are “extremely customizable” you can spend considerable time testing themes to find the “perfect theme”.
So to [...]

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Edublogs Award 2009 Now Open For Nominations!

Looking to thank your favorite bloggers?
Here’s your opportunity!
Nominations for the Edublog Awards 2009 are now open!
And best of all this year we have new categories including my favorite Best Student blog…
So students, teachers, class bloggers (and everyone) start nominating your favorite blogger(s) and web sites — we’re all looking forward to learning about great blogs!
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Tips For Dealing With Spam Commenters

Like most bloggers I really love comments.
And it’s great to get comments that express concern such as “Sue – you’re back and…not blogging yet?:)”……. only to discover it’s a spam comments.
I’ll tell you how I minimize spam comments below – but first a little on the WHAT.
What are Spam Comments?
The reason why people write spam [...]

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How To Moderate All Comments and Posts On Student Blogs

I’m frequently asked ‘how to moderate all posts and comments on student blogs so that nothing is published until approved by a teacher’ because there are situations where it’s necessary.
I’ll tell you how to do it below – but first it’s important to mention educators have differing opinions on moderation and use two main approaches:

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How To Set Up ‘Alerts’ To Monitor Conversations!

An important part of my daily blogging routine is monitoring mentions of me or my blogs on the Internet.
Yes sounds very vain!  And this is why bloggers normally refer to this as ‘Vanity Alerts.’
I’ll tell you how I do it below — but first let’s talk about why it’s a common blogging practice.
How Vanity Alerts [...]

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