First, watch videos 1 and 2 below to learn how to set up an account.
Movie 1 – Creating a blogging account at Edublogs.org
Movie 2 – Verifying email, logging in and changing your password in Edublogs
Next, travel to this web page, and watch the video available in the middle of the page. James Farmer, the originator of Edublogs, does this video, so you'll get to enjoy his Aussie accent. :)
(If your students do not have emails, make sure to check out this gmail hack)
For even more guidance go to Scott Walker's blog where you'll find a step-by-step .pdf to walk you thru it.
Using RSS to help you monitor student blogs is also extremely valuable! :)
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Setting Up Student Accounts At Edublogs.org
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Hi JBlack,
ReplyDeleteI think I stumbled across your world from blog catalog, and it's a very neat world indeed.
I'd add that while RSS can help you monitor student blogs, it also provides some potential privacy concerns because anyone can monitor your student blogs as well. (Mind you, if you're blogging, you're having an open conversation with the world, unless you're behind a password or login.)
We're coming from a Gr 7/8 perspective, so it's more of an issue for us. There are a few WordPress plugins that allow you to use tokens to limit who can have access to your RSS feed... but we haven't played with that yet.
Cheers,
Kisu
Classroom teacher -
ReplyDeleteI didn't know about the WP plugins that use tokens! :) What a great idea! However, you'd have to be using a self-hosted version of WP, which I'm not currently with my students.
Back to the RSS issue. I guess I'm not concerned about RSS and any privacy issues. My students are told not to divulge their names, divulge their school name/location and other identifying information in their blogs. I guess I'm not seeing how RSS could compromise their identity if we protect from the start. Also, it'd be pretty hard for one person to monitor all of my student's blogs unless I listed them somewhere on the web and somehow indicated who I was and the school I am associated with. I try hard not to do this.