Welcome to our new Blog campus option from Edublog
There are many new features associated with our Edublog campus license. - embed videos, podcasts, images and more with no size limits! - over ninety slick and cool themes to choose from - Teacher, student (yes student!) and class blogs - at the touch of a button - Powerful privacy, monitoring and administration options - add widgets such as clustermaps to your blogs and so much more!
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Educational Benefits of Blogs
In addition to providing teachers with an excellent tool for communicating with students, there are numerous educational benefits of blogs. Blogs are • motivating to students, especially those who otherwise might not become participants in classrooms • excellent opportunities for students to read and write. • effective forums for collaboration and discussion. • powerful tools to enable scaffolded learning or mentoring to occur.
Video Tutorials
http://edublogs.org/videos/ Welcome to Edublogs Video Tutorials - each of the videos below is less than 5 minutes long and between 4-8 MB in size (so they are OK for almost all bandwidths) Introductory videos can be found first, scroll down for more complex and detailed videos. Click on the picture above to go directly to the video tutorial site....
What is Blogging?
Number 1: A blog is a Web-publishing concept that enables anyone -- first graders, political pundits, homeless people, high school principals, presidential candidates -- to publish information on the Internet. Number 2: Blogs (a shortening of weB LOG), or blogging has become a journalistic tool, a way to publish news, ideas, rants, announcements, and ponderings very quickly, and without technical, editorial, and time constraints. It essentially makes anyone a columnist. In fact, many established columnists now publish their own blogs. Number 3: Blogs, because of their ease of use, and because of the context of news and editorial column writing, have become a highly effective way to help students to become better writers. Research has long shown that students write more, write in greater detail, and take greater care with spelling, grammar, and punctuation, when they are writing to an authentic audience over the Internet. from an Article by Lorrie Jackson Education World®
