If you have your own blog
If you have your own blog with Edublogs, please make sure the following have been done. This will make life easier for you and your audience.
Log in to your dashboard: Remember to update or save before going on to the next item
Design - choose your theme and add widgets to the sidebars
Settings>General – check your blog title, tagline and time difference should be 10 not -7
Settings>Discussion – check boxes 1,2,3,6 and 7 - leave other boxes without a tick
Users>Your profile – check use visual editor when writing, under website you have written your blog URL eg http://wyatt67.edublogs.org , nickname, display name publicly as, changed your password to something you can remember
Users>Your avatar – this one will be your user avatar, which will appear whenever you make a comment on a post. Make sure you also create the blog avatar; It can be done from the same page.
Plugins>Activate -Bookmarking, advanced editor, contact form, subscribe to comments and widget pack
Manage>Categories – create categories for: students in our class, other students you visit often and one for teachers and parents. Give them a name that is appropriate.
Manage>Add link – now you can add your classmates blogs to the appropriate category. You will keep adding to this as you find more blogs that you visit often. Remember to tick which category they go under.
Comments>Awaiting moderation – remember you can moderate your comments when you arrive at school as I will have checked them before school begins. If unsure, check with me. Also remember to check the Akismet Spam comments.
Manage>Uploads – this is where you can see the pictures or videos you have uploaded and how much storage they have taken up.
Good luck with your blogging and remember we are all learning together. If you have any questions and I can’t answer them, I will try to find out the answers for you.
April 29, 2008 @ 6:34 am
Hello Ms.Wyatt I am 1 of Ms.H’s students. I liked your blog. I have a question can you please get your students to look at my blog and answer some of my riddles , trivia , and my brain teasers. I think you will like it and so will your students.
Please respond.
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April 29, 2008 @ 8:53 pm
Hey Miss Wyatt,
y can’t we stay as administrators?
LIsa
Hi Lisa,
It’s not recommended that students have the rights of administrators. Most teachers don’t allow that at all but I wanted you to get your blogs up and running well first. I need to find out how editor and author rights differ from administrator.
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May 1, 2008 @ 3:29 pm
Hello there,
I live in Victoria.I came to look at your blog beacuse Miss W. sent a comment to a girl in my class, so I thought I would look at your blog to see what it looks like. I really like the cluster maps, I also have a blog and I would like to get a cluster map. If you would like to look at my blog go to http://www.punch.edublogs.org. Don’t worry about the name, my teacher mad it up.
Melissa
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May 1, 2008 @ 3:31 pm
It’s me again, sorry about the spelling mistake I made earlier.
Melissa
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