ED521 - Nansen
Atomic Learning Tutorial on Wordpress
http://movies.atomiclearning.com/k12/wordpress
Diigo resources for Wordpress
http://diigo.com/user/cnansen/wordpress
Wordpress.org is the organization behind Wordpress, and this is where you can download the files you need to run Wordpress on your own server. Wordpress.com is the site that will host your blog for you.
Minot Public Schools runs Wordpress on it's own server < Craig's blog, although not updated recently, is http://pages.minot.k12.nd.us/blog/craig> and will set up a Wordpress blog for MPS teachers for or for their classroom. These student blogs can be password protected so that only people who know the password can access them.
http://movies.atomiclearning.com/k12/wordpress
Diigo resources for Wordpress
http://diigo.com/user/cnansen/wordpress
Wordpress.org is the organization behind Wordpress, and this is where you can download the files you need to run Wordpress on your own server. Wordpress.com is the site that will host your blog for you.
Minot Public Schools runs Wordpress on it's own server < Craig's blog, although not updated recently, is http://pages.minot.k12.nd.us/blog/craig> and will set up a Wordpress blog for MPS teachers for or for their classroom. These student blogs can be password protected so that only people who know the password can access them.
WordPress Resources
Blogger is Google's blog hosting site. Schools that have set up their own Google domain (like Minot Public Schools has, with the domain being mymps.us. This allows us to have students have their own blog and yet people outside our domain don't have access to it.
EduTech Announces Blogs@EduTech Blogs@EduTech, based on the WordPress platform, provides an easy way for the North Dakota K-12 community to blog and podcast. Anyone with an EduTech e-mail account is eligible to request blogging service, but your school's building facilitator must approve the request before it becomes active.
http://www.edutech.nodak.edu/announcements/2009/04/edutech_announces_blogsedutech/
Other blogging resources
EduBlogs is another site that will host educator's blogs for free.
Bloglines is a site where you can search for blogs by interest area.
Google Reader is one of many readers that check on blogs you follow to see if there are any new posts. This saves you from having to go to each individual blog to see if there is anything new. (This is thanks to a notification system, similar to students raising a hand in class, called RSS or "real simple syndication.")
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