The Edublogger

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• 1    Paul Hamilton // Feb 9, 2008 at 8:47 am

  Thank you, Sue, for your helpful posts here at The Edublogger. I wish you’d been writing this two years ago when I first started out with Edublogs! The learning experience is worthwhile, but it take so much longer to figure things out by trial and error.

  I use “paulhami” as my username for countless online services. This works well for me because it is always an available option, and at least a little distinctive. I do prefer to be known by my name, even if it is a rather common one. –Paul Hamilton

  PS Whenever I find that “paulhami” is not available as a username, it turns out that I’ve already registered at the site! With hundreds of registrations, it’s a challenge to keep track of them all.

• 2    Sarah Stewart // Feb 9, 2008 at 12:44 pm

  Thanks for this, Sue. It confirms my thoughts about how I think about my identity. When I started to really get into the virtual world about 8 months ago, I ummed and hawed about how I wanted to be seen. I worried about identity theft and all the other usual things you worry about. But in the end, I decided that it was my professional identity as midwife, education and researcher I wanted to ‘promote’, so I could not do that by being anonymous. So I have branded myself ‘Sarah Stewart’ which seems to be working. The only trouble is: ‘Sarah Stewart’ is an extremely common name so I have to remember to be consistent and logical if I use another identifying name ie SarahStewart07.

• 3    James // Feb 12, 2008 at 9:41 pm

  Hi Sue,

  I was just browsing to find other education-related sites and discovered edublogs. I am currently setting up a WP site for my girlfriend (teacher). Her biggest concern at the moment is publishing homework assignments for students and their parents to be able to see. I noted that some of the sites you host do have homework pages, but they do not make use of the Custom Field feature of WP, and I thought maybe you could pass on the idea to them (if you think it’s worth it).

  What I have done is set up a “Due” Custom Field so that my girlfriend can specifically set it and it displays at the top of each post, right under the date posted like this:

  Assigned: February 12, 2008
  Due: February 14, 2008

  The other advantage is that, with a wee bit of custom WP/PHP, we can display both the latest assigned homework items and the next due assignments. I have set up each class as a Category so that the students can easily keep track of the homework for their specific class.

  I realize that this may be a little more technical than your normal patron would find comfortable, but there’s always the possibility of making a template which would support this configuration.

  Anyway, it was just a thought.

• 4    homebound // Feb 15, 2008 at 2:33 pm

  I also appreciate the help, though like the others here, I still have the default avatar. On the Finished! page, there is a comment that says I have to complete this step, but I can’t find anything to click or link or check or fill in.

  ?????

  I will try again working from the dashboard.

• 5    Sue Waters // Feb 16, 2008 at 3:44 pm

  Hi Paul - glad you finding The Edublogger’s posts helpful. Like you my journey has been a lot of trial and error. Wish that someone helped told me when I was starting out the importance of choosing good URL, meaningful site names and detailed information on the pros and cons of usernames. While aquaculturepda was a simple option– definitely not a great choice and it’s not meaningful, neither does Mobile Technology in TAFE now really explain what my sites are about — yet they are too well known to change. I won’t even go there with the number of different usernames.

  Agreed Sarah - I think branding is the better way to go. Shame that your name is so common that you have to add numbers to the end.

  Thanks for your tips James I will pass it onto Edublogs for them to consider.

  Hi Homebound - your user avatar must have been uploaded because it is displaying in the comment here. Are you talking about the user avatar or the blog avatar? Or are you trying to add your user avatar to your blog as a widget?

• 6    rougeassasin // Feb 22, 2008 at 8:06 am

  DEAR LINGESH,

  THANK YOU VERY MUCH TO HELP GET TO THE NEXT LEVEL OF MY EDUCATION.I HOPE WE WOULD BE INTHE SAME CLASS THE WAY AND OF COURSE,THE SAME TEACHER,MR PETER /PETERIAZATION.I HOPE YOU HAD A VERY HOLIDAY.I DIDN’T SEE YOU FOR 2 WHOLE MONTHS I HOPE YOU ARE HAVING A GOOD TIME.

• 7    Mrs. Brown // Feb 24, 2008 at 12:39 pm

  How do you get the avitar so show when you post. I thought I must have been doing something wrong and was thrilled when this was the tip of the day…. However, my avitar doesn’t show when I post. Well that is unless it does when I post this.

  Please let me know what other steps I can take to make this work.

  Thanks,

• 8    teachersblog // Feb 29, 2008 at 8:57 pm

  Help! I was able to post my image on the sidebar, but when I write a comment it doesn’t show up. I followed all the steps but it won’t show up. Any ideas?
  Aggie

• 9    Sue Waters // Mar 1, 2008 at 12:33 am

  Hi Mrs Brown and teachersblog - your comment avatar is definitely working as your comment avatar is showing above.

• 10    VPeck // Mar 2, 2008 at 3:01 am

  Hi Sue, I seem to be having the same problem as Aggie so I am testing it out here.

  Vanessa

• 11    VPeck // Mar 2, 2008 at 3:02 am

  No pic
  Said it was sucessful???? I’ll keep playing…

• 12    VPeck // Mar 3, 2008 at 3:17 am

  Ok thanks Sue. So does that mean you and everyone else can see me but I will always just get the default generic pic? I can’t see my pic at all. Not on here or on my blog when I’m replying to my students comments????? I used the same pic as my profile avatar which was successfully added months ago.

  ??????? Ness

• 13    overon // Mar 4, 2008 at 9:27 am

  I’m a new Campus Edublog Administrator and for the life of me I can’t find the word Avatar on my tabs or sub tabs. I have a Test Blog set up as an administrator but can’t find where I could add an avatar on the test blog, either. Is the Campus Edublog system different from the regular Edublog system in this regard?

• 14    Mrs. Lundquist // Mar 4, 2008 at 3:20 pm

  I am having problems with my updated display name and avatar showing up in the forum. It still uses my previous display name and old avatar picture. Any suggestions? Thanks!

• 15    James // Mar 5, 2008 at 2:36 am

  Hi Grant,

  We’re rolling out Avatars for Campus shortly… think of Edublogs.org as your testing ground

  Cheers, James

• 16    nedtrevors // Mar 23, 2008 at 8:16 pm

  I have a photo avatar, but I would like to also have vokis on the site. Is that possible?

• 17    nedtrevors // Mar 23, 2008 at 8:18 pm

  If it is possible to add vokis after establishing photo avatars, I would like to know the procedure. By the way, I find your edublog very helpful.

• 18    Kat // Mar 27, 2008 at 5:00 pm

  I would prefer not having avatars on my middle school blog, and I would prefer not having students see the link, “Grab a free edublog to get your own avatar”. How do I hide the avatar icons and this link?

• 19    James // Mar 27, 2008 at 5:33 pm

  Hi Kat, at the moment you can’t turn them off but we’re working in an option to allow this.

  Ned, you can always screen grab a voki and then upload and crop it for a comment avatar but t has to be a regular static image.

• 20    Kat // Mar 28, 2008 at 5:06 am

  Okay, James. I will wait for that option. By the way, I love edublogs! Since our middle school started blogging this past September, we have over 1,700 entries!

• 21    Mr. Dworak // Mar 28, 2008 at 8:20 am

  I have two blogs on this site. One is for my class, where I am Mr. Dworak. The other is for a committee of peers. I would prefer to use my first name, Augie, on the committee blog but am not able to. Is there a way to use different public identities on two different blogs within the same account?

• 22    Pam Thompson // Apr 5, 2008 at 11:38 pm

  Hello Sue. I hope this is not a silly question. My students would like to have their avatar displayed whenever they comment on our (or any) blog. They don’t have their own blogs as yet. Do I have to register them all as users or is there another way of doing it? They’re very keen and have already created their avatars in anticipation!

• 23    chskbrown // Apr 17, 2008 at 8:09 am

  te he i like cheese ^w^

• 24    nurdintop // Apr 26, 2008 at 1:01 am

  Hi, I am Nurdintop, dont say me as Nordin M.Top “The Destroyer Man”, hick..hick….
  Sory just kiding, By the way, I find your edublog very helpful.

• 25    loughborough // May 12, 2008 at 12:10 am

  just wanted to see if my avator had shown up (”,)

• 26    Sue Waters // May 12, 2008 at 1:13 am

  @Mr. Dworak Sorry but I think at the moment you can only have one identity.

  @Pam Sorry but unfortunately I believe they need to be added as users (however worth posting your question in the Edulogs forum in case I’m wrong).

  @Nurdintop Glad you find the blog useful.

  @Loughborough Your comment avatar is definitely working

• 27    What’s in a name? (My fulfillment of Comment Challenge 13) « (No Longer) Alone in a Library // May 14, 2008 at 9:08 am

  [...] usernames, what makes an online identity?  Sue waters had a post about the importance of developing an online identity a while back, but I think the username and [...]

• 28    whi0010 // May 15, 2008 at 8:56 pm

  o.k

• 29    jimirobbo // May 20, 2008 at 3:18 am

  i am not sure that i am leaving my avatar when i comment. it still shows up as the sillouhette on my blog

• 30    The Blogging Journey Part I | Life-Long Learner // May 21, 2008 at 6:06 am

  [...] Desler has developed a wonderful introductory resource on edublogs. Another great resource was on changing your display name (which I needed to upgrade desparately). There is so much to learn about blog presentation. Anyways, [...]

• 31    asiaboo4u // May 21, 2008 at 9:15 am

  add ma blog pleaz and thans

• 32    misstaylor // May 24, 2008 at 7:45 pm

  just testing my avatar. I am having problems with both the avatars and the headers. I am instructed to crop them, but it won’t allow me to crop. I will check back and see if anything shows up.

• 33    tyler4 // May 30, 2008 at 12:03 pm

  i just want 2 know how 2 put my avatar on my home page

• 34    Tina Coffey // Jun 1, 2008 at 5:51 pm

  Hi Sue! My avatar link is not matching the link to my blog. My name goes to my blog, but when you click on my avatar, it goes to the wrong place. I think it’s left over from the very first time I registered. I can’t find anywhere where I can fix this…any ideas?

• 35    Tina Coffey // Jun 1, 2008 at 5:53 pm

  Never mind…it seems to be working now here. That is weird..it’s wrong all over other people’s edublogs.

• 36    Finishing My Homework as The Comment Challenge Comes To An End | Mobile Technology in TAFE // Jun 1, 2008 at 11:05 pm

  [...] Set my Edublogs account to my preferred name i.e. Sue Waters [...]

• 37    ashleerocs // Jun 11, 2008 at 5:20 pm

  hi im really cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

• 38    jordancouttien // Jun 12, 2008 at 1:17 pm

  thanks for having tips about the blogs, it really helped me through doing the blogs

• 39    mrskuczynski // Jun 19, 2008 at 6:28 am

  Hi all. I am new to all of this too- just checking in to see if all if working. I am hoping to use blogging as a tool to encourage my learning disabled students to write- that is if I can figure this all out!!

• 40    tashak38 // Jun 19, 2008 at 3:22 pm

  Hey there folks, I’m trying to move a calendar widget to the sidebar and the edit page does not allow me to change anything and now I have this ginormous calendar in the middle of my blog! Help!

• 41    Sue Waters // Jun 19, 2008 at 7:22 pm

  @Mrs Kuczynski Happy for you to everything out. You may want to check out the comments on the latest post Sharing your blogging experience and tips for educators new to blogging.

  @Tashak38 Check your blog out and can see what you mean. Your blog theme has lots of options as to where you place your widgets. Very confusing. What you need to do is go Design > Widgets . Under Current Widgets (on the right hand) the default shows Banner - which is why it is where you have placed it. You need to click on Edit and then remove to remove this widget from the middle of your blog. Click on the drop down arrow and change to Sidebar (click on show). Now bring place the Calender back into your Current Widget area. Hope this helps let me know how you go.

• 42    Mr. D // Jun 20, 2008 at 6:02 am

  not interested

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