Jul 03 2008
How to set your students as contributors in Edublogs – Part One
Jeff Siderius, a Grade 4 Teacher at Dunlop Public School had the following question about my class blog:
How did you set up your students as contributors on Edublogs? Did you get email addresses for all of them? Or, did you use the linked gmail addresses that I’ve been reading about, using one email address for your class?
Click here to open a PDF, complete with snazzy screenshots, to see an explaination of how things were set up.
NOTE: You now have to be an Edublogs Supporter ($) in order for all of this to work.
Click here for a tutorial on how to do this if you are not an Edublogs Supporter.
Create a free edublog to get your own comment avatar (and more!)
Thanks so much for putting together such a thorough explaination! My future grade 4 bloggers are going to love this…
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Great idea. I followed your directions and it works perfectly. I do have one question – how did you get the heading “Student”. Mine says “Links” and I would like it to say “Login”. Thanks
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Nathan Toft Reply:
December 31st, 2008 at 12:04 pm
Glad to hear this still works. It would appear that this will only work for those who have become “supporters” on Edublogs.
I made a text widget to make the “Student” heading to appear. Here’s what I’m talking about:
1. In your Edublogs dashboard, go to Design/Widget
2. Select which sidebar you want the heading to appear.
3. Click on “Add” beside the “Text” widget. It will now appear on the right side of your dashboard.
4. Click and drag your new text widget to where you want it. This can get finicky…
5. Click “edit” on your new widget.
6. Type in “Student” for your header.
7. Copy the following code into the larger field:
Make sure you change my class URL to your own (http://grade5nt.edublogs.org/wp-admin/post-new.php)
8. Click “Change” to save.
9. Click “save changes”
10. Visit your site to make sure it worked properly.
I hope this works for you. I think a video (screencast) would be easier to follow. I’ll put one together…soon.
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Great instructions. It worked and looks great. This is a new site I am building for the international adoption agency we used seven years ago to adopt our son who was born in Romania. We are not quite ready to preview to the world. But you may want to keep an eye on it. There will be some heart warming stories and pictures as time goes on.
These are the other sites I am involved in http://deem.edublogs.org – this was my learning site so I could help the kids blog at school.
http://swmlibrary.edublogs.org – this is the site for the library I work in. It has only be up and running for a few weeks. But the kids are starting to take a look. Hopefully we will get more traffic once school in back in session.
I will be adding your code to our library site also.
Thanks again for all your help. I love your site and reference it quite often
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