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Missing emails! Have you checked your spam folder?

When did you last check your spam folder?
I’ve been getting numerous emails recently such as ‘why aren’t I receiving my comment notification emails’,  ‘I haven’t received the emails for my student’s login details’ and ‘why haven’t you responded to my email.’
Unfortunately, gmail users are being caught out by legitimate emails being sent to spam and [...]

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Grr Spam Comments..Here’s how to deal with them!

Spam commenters driving you currently crazy?
You’re not alone — and lots of people have been asking me for advice lately.
So let’s first talk a little on the WHAT and then on ‘the how to deal with them’.
What Are Spam Commenters?
The main reason why people write spam comments is to provide links to promote their web [...]

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Has Facebook stopped importing your blog post feed?

Recent changes to Facebook may have stopped the import of your blog post feeds.
Which is frustrating as  some readers are more comfortable, and prefer to read posts, and comment on them, in Facebook rather than on blogs.
Facebook normally checks your feed every few hours and automatically adds any new blog posts to your [...]

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The 137 Edublogs Themes Separated Into Categories To Make Choosing Your Next Theme Easier

We now have a whopping 137 Edublogs themes to choose from ranging from:

Those that can’t be altered to themes that are “extremely customizable”
Standard blog themes to very unique themes including photoblog, magazine, newspaper, twitter and Facebook themes.

Which is excellent!
Important Theme Changes
And we’ve made some important changes to the themes:

Threaded comments – All themes now [...]

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Inspiring Example of embedding lessons as videos on a Class Blog

Meet Tammy – a high school science teacher with an outstanding class blog which you can visit here.
Tammy serves as an inspiration to all of us that are interested in creating an online environment that is a natural extension of our classrooms.
She is amazing when it comes to recording her daily classroom notes and embedding [...]

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How To Easily Embed Your Favorite Tweet(s) Into Blog Posts

I confess!  I’m a twitter-a-holic!
Like all lovers of twitter I like to include tweets in my posts.  Unfortunately previously this meant screenshots or copying the tweet text into the post.
The good news is thanks to @robinsloan from Twitter Media we now have BlackBird Pie.
With BlackBird Pie all you need to do is:

Add the URL of [...]

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