The Edublogger is about the educational blogging community — about us working together, helping each other, sharing our experiences and learning together. To do this we need you to tell us what you’d like to see covered in The Edublogger by leaving a comment on this post or in the comment field at the bottom of this page!
So far you have told us you’d like to see the following covered in The Edublogger:
- How to embed applications in Edublogs, especially videos and Kwout
- How to use Widgets on Edublogs, especially Clustr map. What are widgets? I would like to put a clustr map on my blog, have got the HTML code saved at the moment. How do I do that? Also how do you get the search widget and how do you make your categories and archive widgets look like search boxes instead of lists? Kwout image of my website in a widget instead of just a text description
- A follow-up post on how to (and the limits to) customizing widgets. For example, I’d like to include on my sidebar a simple link to my Twitter page (no updates).
- How to put a feedburner feed in a blog like you do
- Here in the U.S. there’s a popular TV show where the producers go into someone’s home, and completely redo a room. It’s a crazy idea, I know, but it might be fun for you to offer to do that to a blog sometime and redo it as a teaching tool for the rest of us.
- What is RSS feed compared to email?
- Assessing student responses on their blogs
- How to set up student accounts without creating their own blog
- Tips for engaging others in accepting of new tools and new directions
- Advice on loosing organisational structures and over-zealous security to take full advantage of these new tools
- A series on “setting up your blog from scratch”. The process of design, making decisions about content – as well as the “this is how your tweak the right widget for you” techie tips
- Helping teachers use the Web 2.0 in interesting, engaging, and educationally sound way
- Easier, more efficient ways to embed video and audio into my blog
- Ways of expanding my personal learning network
- How can I track the traffic on my blog? Sometimes I get comments, but I would like to know exactly how many people (hopefully my students) are at least just going to the blog in the first place.
- What is the difference between categories and tags and why do both appear on my posts on my blog? Do I need them both?
- An idiots guide to Google Analytics
- How to add a meta tag into the for search engine robots and the like….
- I think that online collaboration is an effective tool for educators. Is there an easy method of doing that through the Edublog site?
- It would be great to explore the uses of blogging in different subject areas. For example, as a language teacher, I’d like to know if are there other foreign language teachers out there looking at ways to use blogs as a substitute for email exchanges across frontiers?
- Moving my blog from blogspot to edublog
- A glossary of terms would be great
You have also suggested you would like to these features in The Edublogger:
- Personally, I think this blog would do well to act as another filter in bringing the great posts to the top – perhaps the Sue Waters version of OLDaily
- What we need – if not an educational focussed Digg – is someone competent enough to bring us the best on a regular basis
- We need the best of the best if you can!
And also told us about what you would like from Edublogs:
- Seamless integration of Photobucket.com content if it can be worked out
- Post a link to a Tip of the Day kind of thing that would appear in our Dashboards
- More plugins… not sure what’s out there but I’d like to have options
