Behind the Published Posts and eBooks

Image credit: Jen Deyenberg As some of you know because you've already subscribed to it (thank you) on the first of the year I started a...

The Edublogs Student Blogging Challenge - Great Blogging Activities for Kids

This semester  Edublogs is once again hosting a student blogging challenge . The Student Blogging Challenge offers a series of blogging tas...

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...

Why I Occasionally Use Box Instead of Google Drive

Yesterday, after posting A Complete Guide to Using Blogger In School I received a couple of questions about why I am hosting it on Box.com ...

A Few Widgets To Consider Adding To Your Classroom Blog

I've been fortunate to have been invited to lead quite a few blogging workshops over the last couple of years. In nearly all of those wo...

Three Responses to "But I Don't Have Time to Blog"

Earlier this month at the Authentic Learning Workshop I was asked, "what do you say to teachers who say I don't have time for a bl...

Ideas for Managing Academic Blogs

In the course of a year I get to run a lot of workshops about blogging . One of the questions that frequently comes up in those workshops go...

What's Your Strategy for Getting Comments on Classroom Blogs?

Earlier this week I received an email from a teacher that was looking for ideas on how to get more comments on her students' group blog....

Taking the Fear Out of Blogging - Webinar Recording

Earlier this week David Andrade shared some helpful information about Discovery Education's YouTube channel . I followed David's ad...

What To Do When Your Work Is Plagiarized

As I noted yesterday in my post about how to share the blog posts you like, there have been a handful of edubloggers experiencing plagiarism...

How To Share The Blog Posts You Like

It's been more than a year since I addressed this topic and since it's something that I and a handful of others in the edu-blog-o-sp...

All of My Blogging Advice in One Place

Earlier this morning on Twitter William Blackledge asked me for some advice about starting a blog. It's hard to make all my advice fit ...

Video - How to Download Blogger and Edublogs Posts

If you and or your students have more than a handful of posts on a blog, you should be in the habit of periodically downloading copies of th...

About Accepting Advertising as an Ed Tech Blogger (or just as a blogger in general)

Warning: this post is a bit of an editorial rant with some advice for bloggers thrown in.  In the last couple of months I've noticed a t...

Writing a Blog Isn't About Numbers

Seth Godin is one of the leading authorities on social media, marketing, and organizational leadership. In this video he and Tom Peters ar...