An urgent question for Edublog users

[Suzanne]

Hi everyone,

I have been using Edublogs for my personal blog, but am trying to help a colleague set one up for her classes next year. I cannot work out what is the preferred method for putting class blogs on edublog. It asks that we not enroll students on edublog, and that their accounts may be removed, and to use learnerblog. So, I went to learner blog. There it appears that the students can easily get a personal blog, but how do class blogs work? When I click on the 'Teacher' tab on Learnerblog, it just takes me back to edublog. *confused*

I am sure I have seen class blogs on edublog before. It seems I either have to break the rules and have students on the teacher platform, or vice versa and set up a teacher as a student on learnerblog.

I also tried adding a student account ( I made a dummy one) to an existing group blog on edublog, and it says the user doesn't exist, so the two sites obviously have separate databases.

Id appreciate any help. I know this should go on the forum over there, but the fact that you have to log into the help forum separately to edublog is quite frustrating.

Suz

[Sue Waters]

Hi Suz

If no one is able to provide you with the answer I suggest you email James from Edublogs direct and ask him to confirm. Send me a message if you want me to DM the email address.

Sue

[Suzanne]

Thanks Sue. I have James email and asked him this question last week, but he did not reply.

[richard O'Connor]

hi you had some stats about participation levels in forums ( 9% lurkl 1% particpare ), where can i find more online research about this thanks

r

[Suzanne]

Hi Richard. They were actually statistics someone had quoted to me, in my discussion about 'critical mass' in education forums. I think whoever it was (Sue Waters maybe?) mentioned the name of the person who initially published those statistics.... Otherwise, you could google the key terms and the statistics and probably find the original post.

[Suzanne]

Try this link - it came up in a google search. http://www.wikipatterns.com/display/wikipatterns/90-9-1+Theory

[Sue Waters]

Hi Richard

Here was my post that links to the original source that discusses the statistics (mmmm looking at an old post makes me want to fix it up). This post is also worth reading.

[Suzanne]

Ive posted in the help forum over there, so hopefully Ill get a quick answer that way.

I find the support structure a bit odd over there. Its ok now Im a member, but when my initial problem was creating an account, there is nowhere to go for help, as you cannot create a forum account without being an edublog memebr already, and there is no 'contact us' area for support.

[Suzanne]

well, I bit the bullet and used the forum, and I only got the standard - 'check the FAQ's and do a search' response. So, I checked the FAQ's - nothing, and I did a search - which showed someone asking the exact same question 2 months ago with no response. I think its time I checked out Global teacher for blogging - I am very frustrated with edublog.

[gordon brune]

Suz
I cracked this nut over the summer. Still stuck with BlogMeister this year, though, when I had a summer class crash & burn with edublogs a few times in a computer lab. I wrote up directions here.
Gordon

[Suzanne]

thanks thats great. it still bugs me though that there isnt any appropriate way to do it within their structure - teachers arent supposed to be on learnerblogs. *sigh*