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You may have heard that Skype announced this week the new ability to video conference with up to 10 users at once.
We’ve tested this out and find it to be really cool. And since many classrooms around the globe are using services like Skype, we thought we would share a bit more.

Skype is a

For the past few months, we have announced on facebook and twitter our featured blog-o-the-week each Thursday.
We hope that others are able to gain ideas from these blogs while we are able to recognize teachers and students for all of their excellent work.

This week, the featured blog is Heroes 2011 from Brebeuf Jesuit College Preparatory

Welcome to the first of what we hope is a useful post with a weekly overview of news in the edublogging world.
This week, one of the most discussed topics around the web has to do with the use of social media by educators and students in schools.
Many schools seem to be moving to strict policies

Welcome to the first of what we hope is a useful post with a weekly overview of news in the edublogging world.
This week, one of the most discussed topics around the web has to do with the use of social media by educators and students in schools.
Many schools seem to be moving to strict policies

As much of the world is heading back to school this month, we have an exciting new feature at Edublogs that is sure to make it even easier to get students up and blogging this school year.
You will be happy to hear that Edublogs no longer requires users to have an email address!
We hope that

It is now time to join in on the bi-annual student blogging challenge!
This challenge is all about having fun, improving blogging and reflective writing skills, and building readership and connections with a global audience.
Last year, the two challenges included thousands of students from over 15 countries around the world!
What is it?

The student blogging challenge is

Just in time for many of us to start back with a brand new school year, Edublogs has recently unveiled a new form creator plugin available to Pro and Campus users.
And you are not going to believe how easy it is to use!
With an intuitive drag and drop interface, you will be making detailed contact

We’re excited, and we think you will be too!
If you click on the Community tab at the top of the Edublogs home page, you’re now taken to our new community area.
What’s in our new community?
Our new communiy area is designed as a place to collaborate, share blogs and resources including:

Latest posts for our Edublogs News blog
The

This week, we unveiled our top 10 ways to use Edublogs.
To be honest, narrowing it down to only ten was no easy task.  Hopefully, the list might spark a new idea on how you can use your Edublog.
You can click the link above to read the complete list or watch the video below.

What do you

If you have logged into your blog lately, you might have seen a screen that looks like this when you first signed in:

This is a new feature that is designed for younger and beginning bloggers to simplify the blog dashboard area by rearranging and hiding some of the less used features.
If you don’t see this screen

Foursquare is not only a powerful geo-location service but also a way to integrate the social dynamics triggered inside its network for a larger Social CRM strategy.

From yesterday morning Apple’s new iPhone 4 is finally available in Italy. The launch was accompanied by the usual queues of enthusiastic users who waited from Thursday night the opening of the Apple Stores eager to grab the new phone by the Cupertino company.

We’ve been on a roll the past month releasing many new plugins available to our Pro and Campus users. If you haven’t clicked on the ‘Plugins’ link in your blog’s dashboard lately, you might want to take a quick look.
The newest addition will allow you to bring in RSS feeds from any blog or

A success story starring many enthusiasts and a few disappointed. The tablet that’s not for everyone.

If you have a blog on Edublogs.org, you probably have seen information about Edublogs Campus. We get many questions each day asking us to give a bit more information on Campus, and I’d like to take this opportunity to point out a few of the main reasons why you should consider it for your

Here is a selection of the ten best websites for movies of the current and past season that deserve to be added to your bookmarks as a source of inspiration in the field.

Tags are an excellent way to organize blog posts and helps blog visitors browse posts based on a specific topic.
Tag clouds are a useful way of showing which tags are more popular than others on a blog.  The larger the size of the word in the tag cloud the more posts that have been

A timeline of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico 88 days after the disaster –

Exciting news!
We are working on a new directory at Edublogs which will allow you to easily sort through and find blogs based on type or location.
To help us get started, we would love anyone that would like their blog to be included in the directory when we launch to complete the form below:

In case you missed it, yesterday our own Sue Waters published A Twitteraholic’s Guide to tweets, hashtags, and all things Twitter. If you haven’t jumped into the whole Twitter experience yet, you might be surprised at how many educators are using Twitter to collaborate and learn from each other.
Each day, on Edublogs and beyond, thousands of