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...

Best of 2013 So Far... A Guide to Mobile Blogging Apps for Students & Teachers

We're half-way through 2013. Like I've done in years past, this week I'll be featuring some of the best new tech tools of 2013 a...

Write App - A Simple Blogging Platform

Write App is a free service on which you can keep a private journal, maintain a simple blog, or do both. Write App is designed with a minim...

A Short Guide to Finding and Using Media on Your Blog - Part 1

A blog can get boring after a while if paragraphs of text is all that ever gets posted to it. More importantly, your students will get bored...

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...

What To Do Before Posterous Shuts Down - And How To Do It

Last March the popular blogging service Posterous Spaces was bought by Twitter. Since then it has intermittent outages (including once just...

If You're Worried About Posterous Shutting Down...

Yesterday, I Tweeted this story about Posterous having some issues with its SSL certificate. Those issues have since been resolved, but th...

Use ImageCodr to Create Correct Image Attributions

Creative Commons licensing makes many photos available for re-use that we otherwise could not use. The trouble is properly citing Creative C...

HipGeo - An App and Site for Sharing Travels

HipGeo is a service that is one part blog and one part photo app. Using HipGeo's Android or iOS apps you can take pictures and instantl...

Weebly Adds Slick Themes and Templates

Last month Weebly launched a new iPad and iPhone app . Today, they released 25 new templates and themes. Teachers and students using Weebly ...

Edublogs Gets an iPad App

The popular student blog provider Edublogs released a new free iPad and iPhone app today. The free Edublogs app will allow you to write new...

Page-level Permissions and Digital Portfolios in Google Sites

This morning I received an email from a reader who needed some advice about having his students use Google Sites as digital portfolios. His...

Open Atrium - Your Open Source Intranet

Early this morning I Tweeted that I was feeling quite geeky because I was installing Open Atrium on a server. While my installation didn...

What's Obvious to You, Is Amazing to Someone Else

One of the reasons I sometimes hear people give for not blogging, Tweeting, or otherwise participating in sharing their ideas online is, ...

Try Posterous Spaces for Private Classroom Blogging

Posterous , a blog service that I've written about in the past , recently made some changes to their service that educators should be aw...

5 Ways for Students to Publish in Under a Minute

There are many excellent platforms that teachers and students can use to create and maintain a blog throughout the school year. Depending up...

Three Purposes for Classroom Blogs

image credit:  One of the most common requests for workshops that I receive is to help teachers create and utilize blogs in their classr...

Thinglink - Make Your Blog Images Interactive

Thinglink is a neat service that allows you to make any image on your blog an interactive image. To do this you have to install the Thingli...

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...

Pencamp - Quickly Publish Your Writing Online

Pencamp is a simple platform for quickly publishing your writing. To get started writing and publishing with Pencamp just enter a name for ...