Archive for the 'Commenting' Category
Apr
13
Blog Rules
April 13, 2010 | 1 Comment
Click on the link below to download a set of suggested blog rules for your school. You may amend them according to your own circumstances and your own project. It would be helpful, if you made significant changes, to send us a copy of your own set so that we can put it here to [...]
Dec
16
A few plugins to try
December 16, 2009 | 1 Comment
Plugins are a great way of extending the functionality of your blog and here are a few that you may find useful. For some basic information and some instructions on how to install plugins, read this post. Scissors Scissors is a really useful plugin that gets around the problem of having to resize images prior [...]
Nov
9
What happens when your blog gets an unsavoury comment
November 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Whenever you open a blog to allow your user community to post comments at some point in time you are likely to receive an unsavoury comment. Sometimes they will just be irritating and just warrant deletion; sometimes they will be a spam comment with a link to somewhere you don’t want your community to visit; [...]
Mar
1
Using Globally Recognised Avatars
March 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Avatars are the small images that you often see alongside blog comments or on social networking sites. Sometimes they are a digital portrait, often they are cartoon representations. Children enjoy creating their own avatars and their use will encourage them to comment on their own school blogsite as well as others. They are also very [...]
Feb
12
Building authentic audience
February 12, 2009 | 1 Comment
Creative Commons image from Smackfu One of the most commonly asked questions of any successful blogger is, “How do you get so many visitors to your blog?” For teachers engaged in a blogging project at school this question lies at the heart of why we blog. We all know that few things motivate children more [...]