We’re working on our free ebook with step-by-step instructions on how to set up a school website or classroom blog using WordPress, and hit a minor snag: Our edublogs.org account was down. Not a big deal, but what if you were in the computer lab and wanted to get your students to comment on each […]
Why a Self Hosted WordPress Blog is better (4 Things You Can Do)
We’re writing our ebook with step-by-step instructios on how to make a school website or classroom blog and quickly remembering why we like self-hosted WordPress blogs so much. Lots of teachers start their classroom blogs using a free WordPress blog or Edublogs account. And quite frankly, that’s the right place to start: It’s free. There’s […]
Geotag Your Classroom Blog – Show Off Where Your Visitors Come From
Geotagging is the art and science of adding geographic information to stuff on the net. It’s interesting for teachers because it gives you a way to show your students who is reading their work published on the internet. Or, at least, where they’re from. Things you need to know about IP Addresses – Your Address […]
Classroom Blog Ranking – How Popular is Your Classroom Blog?
How does your classroom blog rank in the blogosphere? Where does your class website rank? Is anybody even out there? As teachers, we’re focused on helping our students to polish their work. Some of us set up a classroom blog so that our students have an authentic reason to write: to publish their work online […]
Classroom Blog Security: Prevent students hacking your site
There are two situations where you might want to think about classroom blog security and restrict access to your educational website to just a few specific computers. First, you might want to restrict the entire blog so it can only be accessed by people using school computers. Second, you might want to restrict the login […]