Comments on: Step 9 – Add Your Student Blogs To A Folder In Google Reader

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By: Sue Waters

Sue Waters — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:17:04 +0000

@Mr. Miller, Hi John, glad those instructions helped. The other way is you can take the RSS feed from your shared public page feed it into a RSS widget and embed that in a page on your blog.

Down side is some of the widgets can play up but when they work it is good as you have it all in one place.

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Five Edublog Award Nominees to Follow | John's Corner Table — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 19:39:30 +0000

[...] posts about preparing teachers for the upcoming blog challenge. She reinforced the idea of setting up Google Reader to collect the RSS from your blog feeds and comment feeds. What I found interesting was the idea of [...]

By: Mr. Miller

Mr. Miller — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 19:33:16 +0000

Another terrific and useful post – thank you! I’ve set up my numerous student blogs and comments to be read by my Google Reader, but had not thought of the idea of sharing the posts and comment folders with my students. I would just announce to the class that some of them received comments, but now they can view directly at anytime.
This is also encouraging students to reach out more to other bloggers as they begin to see the connection between the comments and positive digital footprints they are making on other blogs with new visitors and comments they are receiving on their posts.

By: Miss W.

Miss W. — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 03:12:09 +0000

@boxplayer, Google Reader had probably uploaded your dummy post, then you deleted it, now when you click on the link in GR it can’t find it cause you have deleted it.

I often find GR only uploads new posts every hour or so but that is enough for me as I check them generally after school or in my time off, not in the lesson they were written.

By: ggsmith38

ggsmith38 — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:03:46 +0000

@Sue Waters,
Thanks for your input. I also have tried to enter the students urls and in some cases, there are repeats and I do not know how to edit them out. I would appreciate your help.
Thanks
ggsmith38

By: boxplayer

boxplayer — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:46:39 +0000

@Miss W.,
Thanks for the reply. We had already edited and retitled “Hello World” with a list of directions for doing the blog posts, and we put up a dummy post for every blog that didn’t have one yet. But Google Reader has brought in a deleted dummy post from one student blog that brings up an error message when we attempt to read it from the feed, and it doesn’t seem to be updating other blogs quickly or at all. Do you know if there is any way to control how often Google Reader checks for new posts? Again, thank you. There’s a lot of tricky, unclear stuff to figure out!

By: Miss W.

Miss W. — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 09:18:34 +0000

@boxplayer, As long as the original Hello World post is still there, they should load into the reader OK. But if students delete that post rather than editing it for their first post, then no, the link won’t work properly.I found that out the hard way.

Same if making comment feeds with URL /comments/feed – they need to keep the original Mr Edublogs comment until they have at least one other comment on the blog.

By: boxplayer

boxplayer — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 20:15:25 +0000

We ran into difficulty when adding student blogs that contained no posts yet. They didn’t get added, even when we went back and put up a dummy post after the fact. Should that have happened? Thanks.

By: Sue Waters

Sue Waters — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 10:04:34 +0000

Yes and I can totally understand that. Students of younger grades like their parents seeing the great stuff they are doing while older students are less likely to want this.

Laughing at what I might do if my mother ever commented on one of my posts?