minis Become Editors not Administrators March 8, 2008
Posted by Al Upton in miniLegends.Tags: Al Upton, dashboard, Edublogs, miniLegends, protection
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A test … as I’ve noticed a couple of ‘password change’ requests … all miniLegends have been changed to become Editors of their own blogs.
The features they have access to are in bold below.
• Dashboard - Dashboard, Promote Your Blog
• Write - Write Post, Write Page, Write Tweet
• Manage - Posts, Pages, Uploads, Categories, Import, Export, Subscriptions
• Comments - Comments, Awaiting Moderation (0), Akismet Spam (0)
• Blogroll - Manage Blogroll, Add Link, Import Links, Categories
• Presentation - Themes, Widgets, Current Theme Options
• Plugins - Plugins, Google Analytics, Akismet Configuration
• Users - Authors & Users, Your Profile, Your Avatar, Blog & User Creator, Invites
• Options - General, Writing, Reading, Discussion, Privacy, Delete Blog, FeedBurner, Blog Avatar, Blog Type, Forums, Twitter Tools, Inline Google Maps 2, Subscribe to Comments, AMP, Contact Form (Editors are greeted by “nice try”)
• Upgrades - Upgrades, Credits, History
I also unchecked ‘Allow link notifications from other blogs (pingbacks and trackbacks.)’… who knows what someone might put in their post when they link to you?
Keep “safe and savvy”.
What it does mean is that students can’t change their passwords. They also can’t delete or change my editorial status from administrator.
I would still like a way for all posts to be sent to me although I do check them regularly. Currently I am the only administrator of their blogs.
I’m really in two minds about this. What do others think?
minis please share what you like (don’t like) about blogging
Video Planning Of Our Novels March 4, 2008
Posted by Al Upton in miniLegends.Tags: fun, learning, literacy, Novels, video
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Today we made videos of our plans for the novels we are going to write very soon.
We want to upload the videos (perhaps on our class blog) and link to them from our individual blogs. Thanks to Murcha for reminding me of TeacherTube .. that’s not filtered here in South Australia.
We had to talk about our plans (these can be changed later)
The Title.
Audience.
Setting … Who, Where, When
A Complication or Problem
Events in Order .. Firstly, Next, Then, After That, Finally …
Ending/Resolution.
It was our normal Tuesday Literacy time. It was great, Mrs Thomas and Gerrie were in the room helping us.
Here is Taylah’s first video take. It’s an experiment … ‘Link to: Page’ takes less space and works well 
Taylah’s Novel - complete draft
Alex’s Novel - links to TeacherTube [Ctrl+K]
Another quick test …
from Chris Betcher in Sydney http://cubo.cc/
Minis is this what you meant when we talked about avatars of the near future? 
(test is because it might be filtered in South Australia)
In Chris’ latest post he quotes an eSchool News article ” … educators in Finland, Sweden, and Denmark all cited autonomy, project-based learning, and nationwide broadband internet access as keys to their success.”
Katriana - Our Intergalactic Mentor March 3, 2008
Posted by Al Upton in miniLegends.Tags: blog, blogging, elearning, fun, learning, mini projects, miniLegends, student directed, student initiated, voki
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We were visited by Katriana today. She seems nice.
Today we made this Voki together.
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