Tips, tricks, ideas and help with using web 2.0 technologies and edublogs
I’m frequently asked ‘how to moderate all posts and comments on student blogs so that nothing is published until approved by a teacher’ because there are situations where it’s necessary.
I’ll tell you how to do it below – but first it’s important to mention educators have differing opinions on moderation and use two main approaches:
Students [...]
Much of the learning from blogging happens as a result of commenting and interaction between commenters.
But how many of your readers know how to even leave a comment? Or what are your comment approval guidelines? Or how you interact with their comments?
In case you forgot to tell them here are some ways [...]
Common questions new bloggers ask me is how do you build your blog’s readership? How do you get people to read and comment on your posts?
If you’re looking for a quick solution – forget it!
Building your blog’s readership and community takes time. Here’s my five top tips to get it happening!
#1 Become a Better Blog [...]
Said it before and will say it AGAIN! Most great conversations and learning happens in the comments and not the post. But reading all comments on blogs can overwhelming so I thought I would help out.
Here are just some of the ideas I’ve gained from conversations on Student Blogging…..How Do You Do What [...]
Comments are incredible motivators for student bloggers. Shame most parents and families rarely leave comments on student blogs. Yet a thoughtful and encouraging comment from a parent can mean so much to their child.
Can you please leave a comment (or write a post) to share your thoughts and tips:
What do you think are the main [...]
It’s important, when managing student blogs, to be able to quickly read all their latest posts and any new comments.
Sure you could visit each individual blog but that is incredibly time consuming. The better way, which saves time, is to bring the posts and comments to you using their RSS feed.
Here is how you [...]
What are your solution(s) to the following problem?
If students posts their comments on the same blog within a few seconds of each other some of the students can end up losing their comments. They will get a warning message and when they return to the post their comment is gone.
What happens is although the students [...]
Leaving a comment on a blog post should be simple process. Trouble is that’s often not the case!
As a blogger you need to make it really easy for your readers to leave comments. Unfortunately many bloggers don’t realise their blog’s settings hamper the commenting process. So let me share my comment pet [...]
Tips For Dealing With Spam Commenters
Like most bloggers I really love comments.
And it’s great to get comments that express concern such as “Sue – you’re back and…not blogging yet?:)”……. only to discover it’s a spam comments.
I’ll tell you how I minimize spam comments below – but first a little on the WHAT.
What are Spam Comments?
The reason why people write spam [...]
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