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Step 8 – Add your student blogs or links to helpful websites to your blogroll

We’ve designed a series of nine steps, with how-to info, to help you with your class blogging.
This step  to add your student blogs to your blogroll (if you have student blogs).
Alternatively you can follow these directions to add links to helpful websites.
What is a Blogroll?
A blogroll is a list of links that [...]

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Setting up Feedburner RSS and Email subscription for your blog

Lots of people have been asking me about RSS feeds and Feedburner over the past few weeks.
So I’ve decided it’s time to update my ‘how to’ Feedburner info so that:

All the required instructions are in one post
It is current for the latest version of Edublogs and Feedburner

What is RSS?
The easiest way to receive latest posts [...]

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Step 6 – Add A Visitor Tracking Widget To Your Blog Sidebar

We’ve designed a series of nine steps, with how-to info, to help you with your class blogging.
This step is to add a visitor tracking tool to your blog sidebar.
Why Use Visitor Tracking Widgets?
It’s likely that your blog gets visitors from around the world.
But unless you find ways of displaying visitor numbers and [...]

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Spicing Up Your Posts: Part I PhotoPeach

Adding your own digital media content to blog posts isn’t hard and it does spice up your posts — providing more variety for your readers!
Let me show you how easy it is to create a PhotoPeach and add it to a blog post.
About PhotoPeach
PhotoPeach is probably one of the fastest and easiest ways of creating [...]

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Step 2 – Set Up Your Blogging Rules and Guidelines

We’ve designed a series of nine steps, with how-to info, to help you with your class blogging.
This second step is to set up blogging rules and guidelines on your class blog.
Why Have Blogging Rules and Guidelines?
An important part of using an online tool with your students is educating them on appropriate online behavior.  Just [...]

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Step 1 – Create A Class Blog

The next Student Blogging Challenge starts in March September, 2010 and this time we’ve decided there are tasks that need to be done BEFORE your class actually takes part in the challenge.
So we’ve designed a series of nine steps, with how-to info, to help you with your class blogging.
Our first step is to create a [...]

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Our Class Blog List Has Been Updated — Is Your Class Blog on The List?

A New Year means time to update the Check out Class Blogs list which has been growing since November, 2008.
About the Class Blog list
It now contains over 200 class blogs, sorted into different categories based on age, subject area and type of blog.
The list was set up so educators can check out different types of [...]

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