Jul 29 2009
Adding contributors to your Edublogs blog – Part 2
[Looks like Edublogs has changed things in this regard, hopefully for the better, in their latest upgrade. Click here for my updated tutorial on this. It's not drastically different from this version.]
One of the most successful aspects of my class blog has been the ability for students to take ownership of a part of it. Students are able to independently log in and write their own content. Each student has their own category providing quick access to their work. Students can work on their writing in school and at home provided they have internet access. Whatever posts they wrote would have to be moderated by me before being published to the internet.
This is a follow up to a tutorial I did on this topic on how to make this happen. Last year, Edublogs changed, rather, created, a business model and introduced a paid level of their blog service. So, something that used to be done for free now requires you to be a paid subscriber. However, I completely appreciate the need to try something out before committing to paying for something.
Thankfully, is still possible to set your students as contributors to your blog without being a subscriber. It is, however, more tedious as it involves creating accounts, user names and passwords for every students one by one. This process is automated for subscribers. In my opinion, it is worth the effort.
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You always make good screencasts and yes how you add them has changed. Sorry
. You can use this method or you can create student accounts and add them directly in your blog using User > Add New.
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