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How To Moderate All Comments and Posts On Student Blogs

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:

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What You Really Ought To Know About Emails!

The most common questions I’m asked and problems I have to deal with daily always relates to emails. To help with your email frustrations, let me explain the answers one at a time.
Do students need to use an email address?
It depends.
If you only want your students to write comments on the posts, you can [...]

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Creating Student Accounts Using One Gmail Account

When you set up blogs with multiple users the comment notifications are only sent to the email address that was used to set up the blog.
So if you’ve set up student blogs with your student’s email address using Edublogs Blog & User Creator feature comment notifications will be sent to your student. [...]

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Setting Up iGoogle For Your Personal Learning

Appreciating the value of using a personalized Start Page is a bit like explaining the power of RSS because you need to experience it first hand. So let me show you how to set up your own iGoogle page and how I use my personalized Start Page.
Importance of Personal Learning Networks (PLN)
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Using Your Twitter Network For Help & Providing Their Recommendations

So how can you feel the true potential and benefit of using twitter? And how can you fully realize it’s impact on your personal learning?
As Frank commented “the secret is to create a sizable enough network for twitter to make sense or to “get” it”. Unfortunately most new users don’t have the sizable [...]

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