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  • Posterous – Blogging with Style

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    http://narede.posterous.com I’ve been using Posterous for a while, and if you are considering blogging as an option to keep your thoughts, ideas, resources, comments, audio and video files in one place, Posterous might be what you’re looking for. Its main advantage is its user-friendliness. It is so simple to start using it that the whole…

  • Kids Teaching Bloggers

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    Kids are an endless resource of learning. They teach us every single day with their body language, words, funny sentences that make sense. In the second activity of the Teacher Challenge, we were asked to analyze a blog post in terms of its effectiveness.If there’s one blogger I don’t miss, Darren Rowse from Problogger is…

  • 10 Things You Should Know About Blogging

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    Though I’m late, it is never too late.As being back to consistency in my blog is a desirable and attainable goal for 2011, I’ll follow the Teacher Challenge and kickstart it with the ten things I’ve learned and wished all bloggers knew about blogging. 1. You never know how your posts will affect readers. Even…

  • Edublogging with Passion

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    Though this post was made in November 2008, it still holds so true that I decided to repost here mainly for my Webtools4Educators group who is exploring the power of blogging. Some might think that blogging is outdated, but I still believe in its power of connecting, reconnecting, learning about yourself and the world out…

  • Blogging with Students in 5 Tips

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    Much has been said, written and commented about blogging for pedagogical purposes. However, never has it been enough. There’s always more reading, more experimenting that can take blogging with students to another level. That’s exactly what a group of new educator-bloggers has been discussing in an online session, Webtools4Educators. So, if I were to give…

  • Moving Physically and Digitally

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    I’m moving. Physically and digitally. I’ll be back home to Brazil soon. I thought. This is an opportunity for reshaping, resizing things in my life. Here’s the plan. I’ll make the change not just physically, but also digitally with one single motto. Simplicity. Though I love my Explorations blog, and could still write stuff there,…

  • Edublogging with Passion

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    A friend of mine in Italy, Seth Dickens, has kindly asked me to talk a bit about edublogging. We had planned for an interview, but due to technical issues, we went for a recording. Edublogging… How many times have I written about it, gave tips, presented, and tried to inspire others? Fact is the ones…