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What you wanted to KNOW about blogging!

As promised here’s my follow up post on general blogging questions asked during Richard Byrne and my ISTE Unplugged blogging session and in comments on my What Do You Want to KNOW about Blogging? post.
The aim of the post is to help educators and students with their personal blogging.
For my responses to student [...]

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What Do You Want to KNOW about Blogging?

Can you help?
I’ve promised to follow up What You Wanted To KNOW About Student Blogging with a post that  focuses on responses to more general blogging questions.
The aim of the post will be to help educators and students with their personal blogging.
But first I really love to know what you really want to know about [...]

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Talking Blogging Live Event!

Our Edublogger, Sue Waters, and Richard Byrne from FreeTech4Teachers.com will be co-hosting an ISTE Unplugged session on Wednesday June 30 from ISTE 2010 in Denver!
Anyone can tune in and participate in this live event which will start at 12:30pm Mountain Time.
If you have questions for Richard or Sue Waters about blogging, please join them in [...]

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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 10 Most Important Things To Figure Out About Blogging

Nathan Toft’s response “this must be one of the top ten things to figure out about blogging” to my How To NOT Have Problems Uploading Photos And Using Up Storage Space post has me thinking.
What would my “top ten things to figure out about blogging” list be for new bloggers? And how would my [...]

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How Do You Feel When Someone Copies and Pastes Your Post?

This is probably one of those posts where not everyone is going to agree with what I say or why I say it
But it’s one of the most common traps for new people — so we do need to discuss our views!
Here’s what I say:
It’s really great to love someone else work!
But you [...]

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Step 3 – Teaching Commenting Skills & Etiquette (Guest Post by Kathleen McGeady)

We’ve designed a series of nine steps, with how-to info, to help you with your class blogging.
Your third step is to teach commenting skills & etiquette.
It’s my great pleasure to introduce our guest blogger, Kathleen McGeady, who provides important advice on teaching commenting skills (regardless of the age of your students).
About our Guest Blogger
Kathleen [...]

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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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