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By: Arthus Erea

Arthus Erea — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 02:37:00 +0000

Each to his own, I guess.

What I want to see is a service which actually hooks into some sort of Microformat so that commenting can be enabled while still having the benefits of minimalism and lightness. (I bet someone at Google’s putting 20% time into it)

Ask Google if you don’t know what a microformat is.

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By: Clay Burell

Clay Burell — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 22:34:21 +0000

Arthus, I agree it’s wonky - I believe I even say so in the post - but again, maybe you have to be a teacher needing to comment on, say, 40 or 50 posts to appreciate Beta Bloglines’ “comment in the reader” feature.

Until you have that experience, you won’t know how good Beta Bloglines feels. We’re not talking about your non-teacher’s occasional comment here and there.

By: Arthus Erea

Arthus Erea — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 22:21:33 +0000

Actually, while the feature is nice I think it is badly implemented. The greatest feature of Google Reader is that it really is efficient… pure content. If you want the comments on something, you can always just follow the comments feed. To comment, it is easy to just click the article title, which will take you directly to the post comment form. Of course, if you want the full beauty (or ugliness) of sites, you can alwas just use Firefox to subscribe to feeds.. (laughs)

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By: Teacher expression in blogs « PhD Learning Curve

Teacher expression in blogs « PhD Learning Curve — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 21:29:53 +0000

[...] I came across Clay Burrell’s posting about another teacher, Lori, in his department who started blogging. It’s not just about [...]

By: Bill Gaskins

Bill Gaskins — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 10:56:21 +0000

Clay,
It is not my favorite. It was a difficult decision based on my school climate and our school filtering system. I have a lot word to do at my school and district. It will take time to get where you are in your school.

One Step at a Time

Bill

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By: Charlie A. Roy

Charlie A. Roy — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 02:33:27 +0000

Thanks Clay!

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By: Clay Burell

Clay Burell — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 02:17:53 +0000

@Charlie If you click on the Tech Tutorials and Google Video and YouTube links in the “My PD Resources” sidebar, you’ll find lots of short tutorials on using Wordpress and Wikispaces. David Jakes and Wes Fryer have lots of good resources on their blogs too.

By: Charlie A. Roy

Charlie A. Roy — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 02:06:07 +0000

I’d love to see my English teachers starting to use blogs in their classrooms. Many of my English teachers are the most open to using technology? Does anyone know of any videos or tools that are web based that can walk them through the process?

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By: Clay Burell

Clay Burell — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 00:41:34 +0000

@Bill. I weep with you. How do you like ePals? I found them so restrictive and walled they drove me nuts. But I remember they opened up some since then. This was a year ago.

By: Clay Burell

Clay Burell — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 00:39:05 +0000

@Benjamim: I think you miss the point. You can comment on blog posts within Bloglines Beta. The time saved doing that, instead of opening each student blog in a separate browser window - which you have to do with Google Reader - far outweighs the time spent singing in to Bloglines.

But I never have to sign in to my Bloglines. It doesn’t automatically sign a user out when it’s closed. So it’s not an issue at all, really.

Until Google Reader allows a) the ability to read _comments threads_ as well as posts (comments are often better than posts, especially on my blog), and b) the ability to leave comments as well, it’s a mere reader.

Bloglines Beta has upped the game. If GR is smart, they’ll steal this idea fast.