One of the most powerful and revolutionary aspects of many technologies being used in classrooms today revolve around the fact that they facilitate student-centered learning and collaboration.
Perhaps summarized best in this week’s post from the Education Vision Leadership blog, the move to student initiated learning, while natural, is not an easy progression. Traditional methodologies, school systems, and

Pro users can now add a Wibiya toolbar to the bottom of their blogs!
This new plugin is a direct result of popular requests from our users.

If you are not sure what a Wibiya toolbar is, you can see it in action at the bottom of the Edublogs homepage. Wibiya automatically adds Facebook, Twitter, user stats,

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

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

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

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

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

Message boards, or forums, are commonplace on many websites around the web. Many people turn them when planning a vacation, for advice, or to get help (like on our Edublogs support forums).
Forums are increasingly popular in the classroom as well as a way to organize and foster collaboration among students.
Edublogs Pro and Campus users

Our third new plugin released this week is an easy way to integrate Facebook with your blog.

The Facebook Like plugin gives you the ability to quickly add a ‘like’ button at the beginning or end of posts or pages.
To give it a try, don’t be afraid to click on “like” at the bottom of this

As promised, we are releasing THREE new plugins this week!  
The first is an easy way of accepting payments or donations right inside your blog.
The second, which has been a highly requested feature, gives you the ability to place a calendar on any post or page in your blog.
This plugin can be used as an