My Tweetwheel (or “why social networking matters”)
This week at Learning with Computers, Ana Ma. Menezes is helping us all learn about “Microblogging with Twitter“. She’s a great facilitator, and despite my limited availabilities I’ve felt eager to give this issue some minutes… Somebody either in this community or at Webheads in Action had mentioned Tweetwheel, and I gave it a try. You can see the result above (click on the image to see the original page, and hover on any “friend” to see how many friends we have in common). I’m currently following 81 people, mostly EFL teachers, all of them usually twittering about EFL teaching and sharing useful resources. I guess I needn’t explain how this does away with the isolation of traditional f2f teaching in the classroom, and how it maximizes opportunities for professional development with like-minded colleagues!
Gladys (gladysbaya on Twitter) Blogging, I'm studying..., Online communities, Teachers and technology, Web 2.0 | Comments (4)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
