How to Make Posts Sticky in WordPress, Kidblog, and Edublogs

When you're using blogs in your classroom there may be some posts that you want to keep at the top of the page rather than letting them ...

Chart - A Comparison of Educational Blogging Platforms

I'm often asked for advice about picking the best blogging service for classroom use. Every school's and classroom's situation i...

How to Limit Access to Blogger, WordPress, Kidblog, and Edublogs Blog Posts

This post is a response to a question that I received on Twitter about restricting access to students' blog posts.  While I prefer to gu...

A Short Guide to Creating and Sharing Google Calendars

Creating a public Google Calendar and embedding it into your classroom blog is a great way to keep your students and their parents informed ...

A Tip About Drafting Posts Outside of Your Blog Post Editor

I create nearly all of my blog posts within the Blogger (for FreeTech4Teachers.com ) or WordPress (for iPadApps4School.com and Android4Scho...

Reminder - Posterous Is Shutting Down - Here's What To Do Next

Like many others this morning I received a reminder from Posterous that the service will close on April 30th. If you don't export your c...

A Short Guide to Mobile Blogging Apps for Students and Teachers

One of the blogging activities that I often suggest in my workshops is having students record and share on-the-spot observations during fie...

WordPress for Beginners

Hosted blogging services like Blogger and WordPress.com can be great for teachers who want to quickly create classroom blogs. Through a host...

How to Password Protect Posts and Pages in WordPress Blogs (Including Edublogs) In Two Steps

On Monday I published directions for enabling limited access to Blogger blogs . Today, by request, I'm publishing directions on how to l...

How to Export Your Blogger and WordPress Posts

Image credit: Martin_Duggan Yesterday, I shared directions on how to download the content that is on a Posterous Spaces blog . I shared thos...

Weekend Workshop - Download Your Blog

I Tweeted about this yesterday and someone replied looking for directions on how to download the contents of  a blog. Below I've include...

Edublogs Removes Ads From All Blogs

The popular blogging platform Edublogs announced today that there will no longer be advertisements placed on Edublogs-hosted blogs. This in...

How to Back Up a Gmail Account

Last week Google experienced a glitch with Gmail that caused some users' inboxes to be deleted. Google says that they're working on ...

How to Back-up Your Blog and Why You Should

The recent closure of Drop.io , the  possible shut-down of Delicious , and the recent troubles Miguel Guhlin experienced with Blogger/ Goog...