Advice from "Crowd Wisdom"?

Tuesday, 9 January 2007 Clay Burell Print This Post

If you’re a teacher who has explored the world of student blogging hosts, I hope you can help with a quick comment on this question:

Which teacher-controllable student blog hosts allow widgets to be embedded (ClustrMaps, RSS buttons, counters, etc) with html code?

I ask this because I see ClustrMaps as a huge motivator of blogging quality and frequency. Any student edublog that doesn’t allow customization with such html widgets is really missing a major tool.

And unfortunately, as far as I’ve been able to learn, learnerblogs.org falls into that category. I might have to have my students migrate to a customizable blog, so they can receive the instant feedback on the size and growth of readership world-wide. Talk about “awareness of audience”–the ClustrMap teaches that awareness better than any teacher or printed page ever could.

Please let me know asap of any sites with this option (or other solutions I’m ignorant of)–and/or if you want to invite Korean students with native English fluency, K-12, to read (and provide Korea ClustrMap dots for ) your own students’ blogs.

They’ll be ready to connect to other classrooms next week.

Thanks for all who are collaborating so far!

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2 Responses to “Advice from "Crowd Wisdom"?”

Jeff writes:
No. 1 — January 10th, 2007 at 2:34 am
http://www.classblogmeister.com/ allows you to put HTML coding into the ‘about me’ section and the header section. It is low on theme choice for HS students, but does allow for HTML. In learnerblogs.org it might depend on the theme that you choice. If you choose a theme that is “sidebar widget enabled” then you can add all the HTML you want…I’d check that out first…I can’t believe that James would not do that with the learnerblogs. I did it with our own installation of wordpress MU and it works great.

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Clay Burell writes:
No. 2 — January 10th, 2007 at 3:52 am
Many thanks, Jeff. I’ll snoop it out. Ahhh, the wisdom

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