Starting your journey into the online world can feel like a crazy place where the inhabitants speak a totally new language.
So here’s a glossary of commonly used terms we’ve created to help you!
Avatar
An avatar is a computer user’s online representation of themself or their alter ego.
Your avatar is an important part of your online identity.
It’s [...]
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A Twitteraholic’s Guide to tweets, hashtags, and all things Twitter
Conferences can make you feel really overwhelmed and alone — especially at a conference like ISTE amongst 13,000 ed tech professionals participants who attend each year.
But never for a twitterer.
For us Twitter users conferences are like walking into a big party where you know everyone and are meeting up with old friends.
So how do we [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Online Accounts: Tips for testing accounts and using Web browsers
Frustrated by the constant logging in and out when switching between online accounts to test student accounts compared to your account?
Since a lot of what I do involves switching between different accounts — I thought it would help to share my quick and easy cheat method using multiple web browsers.
Cheats Method For Testing Online [...]
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 [...]





