Editing comments at Edublogs
I’ve already shared all this at B4B, but I’d better post it here so that I can find it when I need it…
Carla Raguseo pointed out that (unlike Blogspot), Edublogs allows you to edit comments posted either by yourself or others to your own blogs (Blogger does allow you to delete them, but not edit). It took me a while to find out how to go about it, and this is what I learned then:
- Click on Administration/Manage/Comments
- then click on Edit for the comment you want to modify or “Mass Edit Mode” to edit it all comments…
- The editor for comments has lots of icons that enable WYSIWYG when editing comments, quite similar to what you get when entering posts (just more limited, no options for embedding.) Pretty easy to format a just entered comment! I’d just tried HTML for link in the comments, and they worked! There’s no preview option, but it’s you can always edit them later!
- You can even “unapprove” already published comments!
Comparing Blogger and Edublogs: At Blogger, I can delete comments I’ve entered to any blog (not only my blogs) by clicking on the grey trashbin in the comments blog… Is there any way to take my words back in comments I post to other people’s Edublogs, apart from emailing the owner and requesting they delete my comment? Not that I need to, just exploring the options! I think I’m finally “falling in love” with Edublogs… not as intuitive as Blogger, so I’ll stick to that one for my class blogs for the time being, I hope I’ll be posting more regularly to my Edublog myself!
Gladys
Teaching writing, teaching life…
Co-presenting with Bee Dieu for Blogging for Beginners, Aaron Campbell said:
“Over time…
Authoritarian and Vertical Classrooms
Create Authoritarian and Vertical Minds”
(click here to watch their wonderful presentation on “Involving students in Blogging“)
Having watched (click on the grey triangle over the image below to see the video):
Web 2.0 The Machine is Us/ing Us (4:31 mins)
by Digital Ethnography (a working group of Kansas State University students and faculty dedicated to exploring and extending the possibilities of digital ethnography, led by Professor Wesch) today,…
I wonder whether we writing teachers can keep denying that…
“Over time…
teaching unilinear writing, fixed in time
creates unilinear thinkers, unwilling to question
and mistrustful of lifelong learning”.
Gladys (rethinking my teaching practices ;)!)
NOTE: first time embedding a video in one of my blogs! 
