Many teachers are blogging in the classroom. It’s authentic writing that hooks struggling readers and writers, especially boys. However, there is one huge flaw with using WordPress or Edublogs in the classroom. Students can read unmoderated comments when they are logged into the edublog or class blog before the comments get moderated and published online. […]
Social Networking with Web 2.0
Our Google pagerank has dropped to a rank of two and we’re not sure why. Pagerank is Google’s opinion of how important a website is. The higher the pagerank, the more important Google (and apparently the world) thinks you are, and the higher you show up in a search listing. In a nutshell, Google is […]
WordPress Roles and Capabilities: How to get Students and Teachers to Put Content on Your School or Class Website
We use WordPress as the engine behind our school website and classroom blogs. It’s great because you can log in to the class website online and use the web interface to add contest to your website. But WordPress also allows you to set up various levels of access to your site by changing the user […]
Maintenance Mode – Hiding your school website while it’s under construction
Are you the teacher responsible for your school’s website? Perhaps you have a classroom blog. Either way, there will be times that you’re trying out new things on your site that you don’t want the rest of the world to see. Here are some scenarios: You’re flipping through a few new themes and layouts and […]
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 […]