Easy blogging for kids with Easy Blogger Junior

❝ Easy Blogging for kids ❞ to Edublogs

Just discovered this - pretty amazing - App (for iPhone, or better iPad) that will make blogging for your young students very easy.

Instead of you doing the work, it's time to hand it over to the students themselves! 

From PreK to  . . . they will master this one with little to no extra help.

The App supports a shared iPad environment, an outstanding feature.

It was developed by 3 fathers/educators, and they have given it a lot of thought. 

The best is to watch the short video that explains all features, you can find it at their homepage:

http://www.theeasyappcompany.com/app/easy-blog-jr/

It will allow your students to pick their name from a gallery, and then they will be guided in simple steps towards creating a blog post.

The App supports pictures, movies and text.

Ready to go for it?

Here is the iTunes link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/easy-blog-jr/id716354615?mt=8

Publish EduBlog posts to your blog directly from your personal email account - possible now!

 ❝ Post by Mail ❞ to Edublogs

One of those outstanding features of Posterous was the fact that you could blog via E-Mail.

Wordpress has those possibilities, but Edublogs (we use the Campus setup) was lacking this possibility so far.

It took a (long) while, but now you can post to Edublogs by sending an E-mail as well.

It requires the JetPack plugin activated.

After activation, you must connect (with any valid account) to Wordpress.com.

Then you can configure the settings. Posts will be formatted, and can contain image(s).

Read more about the mail settings and the plugin here: http://jetpack.me/support/post-by-email/

 

There are more options (other than Post by Mail) as you can see below. Connect to Facebook, 

post directly to Twitter etc. Good stuff out there!

You might want to share this good news with your teachers (and students)!

Here is a quick tip: have a QR-code on your desk, that will send a mail to your Edu-Blogs mail account!