Tag: Wordpress
How To Create An Effective Classroom Website
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No doubt you have already have a classroom website or will be required to create one in the very near future. Here are some best practices and tools to help.
4 Free Ways To Start Your Own Blog
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Blogging is a digital skill that every teacher and student should have. Its a great way to expand upon and share the learning that is happening both in and out of the classroom, and to engage students in ongoing discussion on the subjects that they're learning about.
New WordPress Plugin Lets You Build Your Own Online School
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Ever wanted to build your own online school? A new Wordpress plugin called Sensei by WooThemes might be a good place to start.
Why Teachers Should Try Out Tumblr
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A teacher or education administrator's time is precious. They barely have time to teach or educate at all these days. Tumblr is a great next step. It's as simple to use as Twitter, growing in popularity (like Twitter), requires no technical skills, and is quite fun to use.
HOW TO: Create A Blog. Every. Single. Step.
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On the surface, setting up a blog is simple. While it's really not complex no matter how you view it, there can be small hangups and confusing steps that leave you uncertain how to proceed. Good thing you've got Edudemic.
8 Tips For Blogging With Students
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Blogging is a great way to promote reflective writing in class. The best way to get started is to jump in and try it out, and this list should provide some pointers to get you started.
A WordPress Widget Perfect For Building Your PLN
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If you're an education blogger using Wordpress, Dell has a pretty sweet new tool for you. It's a widget that displays a curated list of your favorite education blogs and websites. <shameless plug> We at Edudemic...
40 New Education Blogs Recommended By Teachers
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It's super easy to start your own blog. That's a good thing. It means teachers with little time (isn't that every teacher?!) or technical know-how can actually have a stellar blog. These 40+ new blogs are incredible additions to any RSS reader.
20 Education Administrator Blogs You Should Start Following Right Now
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This is part of a series of ‘Best of 2011‘ posts where we share some of the best education-related materials of the past year. Be sure to check back on a regular basis as we’ve got some pretty exciting stuff coming so...
How To Do Everything On WordPress
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Rather than venture into the world of Wordpress alone, Edudemic is here. Below is a 'how to' guide written for real people. You don't need to know the lingo of Wordpress before reading this. The only you thing you need to know is how to click a mouse.
So Long Picasa and Blogger: Google Making Big Changes
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Google is taking the rollout of Google+ very seriously. Rather than see another Google Buzz fail, they're pulling out all the stops. Literally.
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Blogger To Get Major Redesign [Preview]
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I know many of the people in my PLN use Google's Blogger as it is an easy-to-use system for getting your thoughts online. While other sites like Posterous and Tumblr are making increasingly easy publication systems, ...
The Cheat Sheet For How Your Blog Works
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If you've ever used Wordpress, you've probably activated and tweaked more than a few themes in your day. Those themes don't magically appear out of thin air. They're built by developers who create dozens of coded page...
10 Cheap Premium Kick-Ass WordPress Themes
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You may have noticed Edudemic just got a fresh coat of proverbial paint a couple days ago. While it's usually not a good idea to switch up a site's design too frequently, some updates are usually a good idea. The g...
20 Dropouts Who Are Changing The World
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Read up on any new millionaire or billionaire and it seems they have the same story: come up with a good idea, drop out of school to develop it, cash in. It seems that innovators all have had to drop out of college (or high school) in order to have the time to make their dreams a reality.
Why is that? Isn't school supposed to be a nurturing atmosphere that allows for innovative people to flourish?
Is Mobile Blogging Here To Stay?
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Do you blog? I'm not talking about tweeting or facebooking, I'm talking about writing articles that include rich media as well as plenty of text. If you use Wordpress and typically post blog articles by using a desktop or laptop... you're apparently not hip. That's because Wordpress has just announced that more than one million people are currently using their mobile app to blog. (This includes iPhone, Android, Nokia and other Wordpress apps.)
