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Comment on Adding A Voki Speaking Avatar To Your Blog Sidebar by A.T.TIPSCAST Episode #44: Alternative Professional Development @ PUWT09 « A.T.TIPSCAST: The Blog

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:55:22 +0000

[...] This website allows you to create an animated talking head. Use text-to-speech or record a voice to have the voki speak the message. Vokis could be used by a teacher to introduce a lesson, give verbal instructions for an assignment, record reminders to students, provide feedback and more! Vokis could be used by a student as an alternative means of expression for presentations, practicing conversations, or demonstrating knowledge. Check out these ideas on how to use Voki in your classroom from The Edublogger. [...]

Comment on Tips For Dealing With Spam Commenters by Liane YoungBlogger

Liane YoungBlogger — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:31:06 +0000

Spamming really makkes my blogging life miserable. Not only because I hate that technique, also because it makes me lose comment number. It could’ve been a decent comment but they choose to spam. It’s a shame

Comment on What Are The Different Roles Of Users? by Sue Waters

Sue Waters — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:45:55 +0000

@mcaffrey1970, Have you looked at our Getting Started with Edublogs information? – Located here http://help.edublogs.org/getting-started-with-edublogs/

Comment on What Are The Different Roles Of Users? by mcaffrey1970

mcaffrey1970 — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:38:33 +0000

How do I create an edublog for my students to comment on? How do I post a question for them to answer?

Comment on What Are The Different Roles Of Users? by mcaffrey1970

mcaffrey1970 — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:36:59 +0000

I do not know what I am doing on this website.

Comment on Calling All CLASS blogs…Please Share Your Blog URL With Us! by mrssweet

mrssweet — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:35:24 +0000

http://blogs.katyisd.org/mrssweet
Mrs. Sweet’s Blog
7th Grade (12-13 yr old) students
Language Arts / Reading

Comment on Tips For Dealing With Spam Commenters by drmike

drmike — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:51:57 +0000

Hi Sue. I'm sorry to say but you've pushed one of my buttons. I for one can not recommend the use of Akismet. Having been blackballed by Automattic within it, I feel the service is too political. To this day, I still can't send a trackback from my own blog and not have it marked as spam by Akismet. Experience has shown with the folks that I host a very large percentage of false positives with it, especially on highly technical sites. The other problem is the use of Akismet within a service like EduBlogs. It's actually a quick one line change to the Akismet file and James could offer complete sitewide service without the need for folks to run to another site to pick up a license. The problem though to do that, it costs money. A great deal of it. So much so the pricing isn't even listed on that page. They do a free option but it requires their own advertising on your sites. Let's also be honest. Most folks don't check the spam queue. They assume that a service like Akismet is plugin and forget and if it's in there, it;s supposed to be in there. There is an alternative though which is something I've suggested in the support forums a couple of times. The use of Typepad's solution. They've stated a number of times that the use of their service is 100% free, even on a setup like Edublogs. All it would require would be two edits of the Akismet plugin, the free license obtainable from Typepad and the change of the url of the server that the check is made against. Thanks Sue.

Comment on Share Your Advice on Using Student Photos on Blogs by rjr52

rjr52 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:44:42 +0000

I am trying to have students add to the class blog as a contributor and make posts about our class topics. How do I allow them capabilty to add media, such as images and video links…which of course I will approve as I review?
Thank you.

Comment on Tips For Dealing With Spam Commenters by Ken Allan

Ken Allan — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:02:00 +0000

First time I’ve seen your blog. And what a great post that was!

Yeah, right!

About 5 a month on my blog. I try to resist comment moderation. But there will come a time . . .

Catchya later

Comment on How To Set Up ‘Alerts’ To Monitor Conversations! by mendicant

mendicant — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:05:57 +0000

This is great, I was looking at something similar a while ago and found you can get similar results with monitor this and a netvibes account.
I also use google reader for other feeds as well and haven’t come to anything firm on one vs the other.
I also assisted an academic recently to do something similar on a specialised topic using rss and his reader, it works a treat.