We are happy to announce the release today of two new exciting features for our Pro and Edublogs Campus users! Easy Image Widget Have you ever wanted to add a badge, photo, or other image to the sidebar of your blog? Before now, it took pasting in some HTML code to get it to work [...]

We’ve just released two new plugins for all Pro and Edublogs Campus blogs! 1. MCE Table Buttons - Activate this plugin and several new table management buttons will appear when you are working on a page or post. Similar to the table tools in Microsoft Word or Google Docs, this new plugin makes it easy to [...]

We have always had many different privacy options available to our bloggers – blogs can be as public or as private as you’d like. Until now, if you wanted your blog to be private so that only a certain group of people could see it, you had to create and add usernames for each individual [...]

We’ve got a huge amount of new blogging toys coming your way here in 2012! To help lay the ground work for the even better stuff yet to come, you will now notice two snazzy new boxes greeting you when you first login to your blog’s dashboard. There is more! Go to Dashboard > My [...]

Whenever you first create a blog here on edublogs.org you are given a brand new URL, or link, for your site. For example, studentchallenge.edublogs.org is the URL for the Student Blogging Challenge blog. As of today, you can also access the same site using studentchallenge.edublogs.com – see what we did there? Even though the .org ending [...]

We are thrilled to unveil a brand new theme today! Yoko – as it is called – is our first “responsive” and HTML5 theme. This means that it will look great on all types of devices – including tablets and phones. Exciting, huh? This works because the theme is designed to move the sidebars and [...]

One of the best parts about working at Edublogs is seeing daily all of the amazing learning experiences of students through blogging. We regularly try to share these examples on our Facebook and Twitter pages, but this one in particular seemed worthy of a bit more. Six teachers, from six different corners of the world, have collaborated [...]

Learning Objectives:1. Identify a historical significant female American. 2. Compose a monologue describing the life of that historical person and that individual’s historical significance.3. Research both primary and secondary sources to include in the monologue and presentation.4. In a 3-5 minutes presentation to the class, the student will dress in approp […]

Learning Objectives:1. Evaluate examples of historical trifold brochures.2. List qualities of a good trifold brochure.3. Locate pictures and research facts about a museum /historical location to include in the brochure.4. Create an attractive, well written, historically accurate brochure to attract visitors to a historical location/ museum.Summative Assignme […]

Learning Objectives:1. Discuss as a class what the group knows about George Washington. 2. Brainstorm and build a list of facts from the prior knowledge of the group.3. Research individually to find three unique facts different from the list the class created.4. Share discovered information and sources with class.5. Explore concepts of information literacy s […]

Learning Objectives:1. Define the qualities of a heroic action and/or person.2. Discuss modern terrorism and the impact on our lives.3. Define the terms terrorist/terrorist action.4. Research the events at Harper’s Ferry and John Brown.5. Explore newspaper articles from the period and other primary sources about Brown’s attack on Harper’s Ferry.6. Debate as […]

Learning Objectives:1. Explore the documentation of historical events by historians, the public, and politicians.2. Develop criteria as a historian for the use of the labels “massacre” and “battle” for historical events.3. Evaluate historical events and determine whether they are correctly labeled based on criteria.4. Examine the name changes over time assoc […]

Most instructors require some sort of text book or reading materials that are quite thorough and provide a good overall understanding for students on the people, places and events of history. Then instructors plan a series of lectures and assignments that compliment and expand on the readings to meet the competencies of the course. We also want our students […]

Title: Signers of the Declaration of Independence AssignmentObjective/s: Learner will research an assigned Signer of the Declaration and come to class as that person with clues about who they are for their classmates to guess who they are.Assignment type: FormativeAssignment Details1. Student will be assigned the name of one of the signers of the Declaration […]

Last week I attended the ELCC Conference and presented with Mary Cash, Save the Trees!, on open content courses including my use of NROC content in CCCOnline history courses. One of my favorite presentations at the conference was by Chris Luchs and Kae Novak on Augmented Reality Assignments.Scenario based learning, Authentic Assessments, and Augmented Realit […]

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