[Yr7-10it] Blogging for Students

[Caterina Garwoli]

>
Hi Paul
I am using Edublogs this year after using globalstudent lastyear. It does
work well but took me a long time to get the hang of it.  Blogging
requires a great deal of administration - time we teacher may not alway
have.

I have 3 classes of year 8 with 30 students and I was hoping to setup a
blog again this year for each class (me as the administrator) and the
students as users.  However I have just discovered that after paying for
edublog pro access, I can only have the extra pro features on one blog
only and not multiple blogs  unless you pay more money. So I am currently
following that up. You will need the extra pro functionality.

I would be happy to run through with you.  Maybe you can come and visit me
since we do know each other from ANZ days?
Caterina


Hi everyone,
>
> For my Year 9 ICT class, I want to have them Blog about each of their
> completed projects, including a screenshot of their finished product.
>
> I was hoping to use Google Blogger, but can't get it working on the
> school's
> network.
>
> We have unblocked the following URLs:
>
> http://www.blogger.com/
>
> http://3.bp.blogspot.com/
> http://1.bp.blogspot.com/
> http://2.bp.blogspot.com/
> http://4.bp.blogspot.com/
>
> as well as these pages for their individual Blogger Accounts:
>
>  <http://ppa2011student01.blogspot.com/>
> http://ppa2011student01.blogspot.com/
>  <http://ppa2011student02.blogspot.com/>
> http://ppa2011student02.blogspot.com/
>
> .... through to
>
>  <http://ppa2011student30.blogspot.com/>
> http://ppa2011student30.blogspot.com/
>
> the students can get in, but the editor just lags forever, and they cannot
> input any information.
>
> Has anyone had similar problems and know how to solve this?
>
> I am now in the process of setting up EDUBLOGS accounts for my class of
> students, to try and use that platform instead.
> Is Edublogs good? Has anyone used it? Any Tips and Traps?
>
> Has anyone used Blogging on Moodle, and is that any good?
>
> Thanks,
> Paul Pascoe
> ICT / Mathematics Teacher
> St Francis Xavier College Berwick
>
> http://passyworldofict.blogspot.com/
> http://www.youtube.com/passyworldofict
> mppascoe at tpg.com.au
>
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