Sue Waters Blog

Yes I know unusual post
But the problem is every day I receive requests for assistance via my personal email account, Twitter, IM, comments on blog posts etc.
So I need to provide some alternatives while I’m away for 8 days.
So here’s other ways you can get help:

Step 1: Read through the [...]

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People are now asking me about Blogs.mu in terms of school blogging programs so I’ve decided it’s better to clarify because most people won’t appreciate how very different Blogs.mu is from other hosted blogging solutions.
But before I do it is important to point out, to ensure full disclosure, that I work for both Edublogs and [...]

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Finally I can shared some really cool and exciting news of my latest venture. A few weeks ago James Farmer, founder of Edublogs, approached me to ask if I was willing to be the editor of The Edublogger, a blog set up by Edublogs dedicated to helping educational bloggers with using emerging technologies in [...]

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Vicki Davis (Cool Cat Teacher Blog) did an absolutely amazing post titled Best of the Web: My Most Useful Tools where she shares her most useful websites/tools with her readers — READ IT — I found gems in her post that I had not tried [image by marie-ll]
Vicki also encourages us all to take the [...]

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Well I had wanted to catch up with James Farmer (Edublogs founder) when I came to Melbourne but did not want to bug him as he is SO BUSY. So was incredibly pleased when he found out that I was here and sent me an email asking me if I wanted to catch up.
Knowing [...]

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If you have been struggling to decide which site you should use to host your blog I recommend you check out Edublogs. Edublogs has always been good, but since it turned 2 years old it became great!
How do I know?
Here some of the reasons for why I can say Edublogs is great:

I [...]

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Darren at Drape’s Take did an excellent post today on Why Every Teacher Should Have A Google Account. This is a list of basic tools that I recommend to lecturers:
Bookmarking
Definitely a bookmarking site is a must. It is so great to be able to bookmark a website online that you can then view [...]

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It has been a great week of tips and “how tos” for blogging with Edublogs.
First John Pearce showed me how to make my posts more colourful by showing me how to access the advanced wysiwyg editor by clicking on the visual editor and pressing Alt+Shift+V (if you are using FireFox). Thanks John and yes I [...]

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