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Integrating forums into our Edublogs
February 27, 2008 | Tagged forums. blogging4educators, larryferlazzo | Leave a Comment
I’ve just read in an Edublog newsletter that now Edubloggers can also integrate a forum into their blogs:
Visit Options > Forums when you’re logged in and create a forum (it takes about 10 seconds!). Then just copy and paste the page code provided into a post or a page and.. hey presto, you can host your very own forums that easily!
It’s a brilliantly simple way to have whole class discussions, provide great Q & A facilities or get your colleagues together on one space.
And what’s more now you don’t have to worry about whether your students should use learnerblogs, uniblogs or eslblogs – as Edublogs.org is now open to everyone – which means that your students can really easily participate in your forums as you can all sign up to the one advertising free site.
There’s more information here: http://edublogs.org/2008/02/26/come-together-and-chat-on-our-new-forums/
With the option to have static webpages as well as traditional blog posts, setting a fixed front page, and an integrated Wikispace into our Edublogs, plus the just-added forums, I wonder where we can draw the line and keep calling our Edublogs simply blogs… Actually, they become closer to a richly featured personal website everyday! 8-D!!
Gladys
NOTE: Larry Ferlazzo highlights posting to these forums is restricted to Edublog registered users and comments cannot be moderated. This might be a limitation for schools, especially when working with young learners (they might reveal personal info). With adults I wouldn’t be concerned, as posters are clearly identified, which prevents spamming!
