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Easy blogging for education... View this email in your browser Top Posts Of The Week There are some exciting new moderation and commenting features in your Edublogs dashboard! Also, discover ways to make your blog more interactive, impactful and engaging for students and parents. For even more weekly goodness, check out our Weekly Roundup posts on The Edublogger.  New Features! Private Comments and Group Lists theedublogger.com   We're happy to roll out two new tools that we think are huge for student and course blogging. These features are available now on both free and Pro Edublogs and will be added to all CampusPress networks next week.   Read Post Now Take A Road Trip Using A Green Screen gallaghertech.edublogs.org   Using a few apps -- Comic Life, Green Screen, LayerPic HD, and the built-in Maps app -- students were able to create a one page comic about their "trip."  They included information about each location which describes the importance of the place.  They also selected a vehicle to travel in and created a map, using the vehicle as a symbol for where they stopped.  Check out the post to see an example and directions on how to use the apps they used.   Read Post Now How To Use Voki emilypaschall.edublogs.org Emily Paschall has been using Voki's talking avatars as part of the learning her students are doing in their Digital Passport Initiative. She thinks it's time you learned how to use a Voki on your blog as well. The post includes a YouTube video showing you how to add a Voki speaking avatar to your blog.  Read Post Now Telling The Story Of Our School! blogs.neisd.net As a principal, Todd Bloomer, "realized that each opportunity that I had to interact with the community was a chance to tell the story of [his] school."  Besides weekly emails to parents letting them know what's happening at the school, he has started many other outreach initiatives. In this post he looks to start a discussion about how school leaders are telling their schools' stories.  Read Post Now The Opportunity To Further Bring Parents Into the Learning georgecouros.ca "If social media is used in a thoughtful way to make learning visible, the hope is to change the conversation from 'What did you learn today,' followed by the usual 'nothing,' to something much more powerful." -George Couros YouTube video by Mark Renaud. Click the image to view the video or click below to... Read Post Now   Meet CampusPress: Get Edublogs For Your Entire School! Facebook Twitter Pinterest YouTube Copyright © 2015 Edublogs, All rights reserved. You joined this email list by signing up for Edublogs or by indicating you are interested in blogging - including Student Blogging Challenges, theedublogger.com, The Edublog Awards, and more. Our mailing address is: Edublogs PO Box 163 Albert Park, Victoria 3206 Australia Add us to your address book unsubscribe from this list    update subscription preferences