The Edublogger

Always a tricky one when you’ve been busy “doing stuff”. Do you confess? Or hide the evidence? Mmmm probably should be responsible and come clean .
I’ve been thinking a lot about the importance of commenting on blogs because it’s a crucial aspect of blogging conversations for achieving the greatest learning. Trouble is factors [...]

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Ever had one of those days where the words just refuse to behave? Where it feels like every word you use is the wrong word? And you continuously rewrite the same sentences.
Worse Still! You finally finish the post believing it’s your best ever only to find no-one comments.
The unfortunate fact of blogging [...]

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This best of Web 2.0 series evolved from demonstrating the value and benefits of using twitter for your personal learning. So far we talked about Are You Getting The Most Out Of Your Web Browser? and Getting More Out Of Blogging And Edublogs.So it must be time to talk about blogging tools my twitter [...]

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Some of you have realised today that your Embed Flash swf Button and Media button in your Write Post Visual Editor are missing from your Edublogs dashboard.
Worse still you’re wondering what’s happen and how will you embed flash files and videos.
Why The Flash and Embed Media Button Are Missing
Since we can now directly [...]

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Our last post showed how to upload videos directly into your blog plus linked to tutorials on creating your own videos.
I love teaching people how to create digital stories and videos because it’s a skill that most learners, regardless of age, enjoy learning, experimenting with and are more likely to spend time perfecting their skills [...]

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Let’s be honest video’s are cool. Fun to create and enjoyable to watch. Unfortunately video sharing websites such as Google Video and YouTube are often blocked by schools which causes problems if you want to embed videos from these sites into blog posts.
The good news is you don’t have to upload your and/or [...]

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UPDATE: Embed Flash swf button and Embed media button don’t exist since Edublogs has been upgraded to the latest version of Wordpress.  You need to use the HTML tab for embedding videos and Flash Objects.
Now that Edublogs have given us new freedom and allows us to embed javascript, iframes and object code directly into our [...]

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It’s official! Edublogs has decided to allow javascript, iframes and object code.
So what does this mean? Besides the fact that I now have to make changes to several previous Edublogger posts, our life has just become considerably easier because we can just copy and paste pretty much most ‘embedding’ code we pick up [...]

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Besides making it easier for readers to subscribe to your blog using RSS or email, using a Feedburner feed means you can analyse your subscribers e.g. number of subscribers, and which feed reader they use.
Trouble is unless you redirect all your blog feed to Feedburner you won’t get an accurate picture of the number of [...]

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When I first started blogging with Edublogs we only had categories; which most of us used like tags. But then came Christmas — and Edublogs gave us tags for every post and a tag clouds for our sidebars. Now all we had to work out was “What’s the difference between tags and categories, [...]

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