I had a great day today working with about 20 students, grades 5-8, and their teacher in Greenville School near Marietta, Oklahoma. I helped them get a new class blog started using b2evolution. I settled on b2evolution as the blogging tool because:
- b2evolution does not require students to have email addresses to setup accounts (they can use a dummy account like “none@none.com”)– unforunately both learnerblogs and blogger DO require student email accounts.
- ClassBlogmeister is a great tool, but it is controlled by David Warlick, and I need a software tool I can use and setup directly without working through an intermediary (even though David is a GREAT guy and very helpful– he’s just often pretty busy!)
- November Learning Communities has great classroom blogging software, but it costs big $$$. b2evolution is free.
- b2evolution supports creation of multiple blogs from the same mySQL database. My web host limits me to five mySQL databases, so this is a VERY big deal. (I don’t have enough mySQL accounts to setup a new wordpress blog for each classroom I want to help like this.)
- b3evolution is free, and was FAIRLY straightforward to setup (as web apps involving mySQL using PHPmyadmin and ftp go…..)
Now I need to do a few tweaks to the install: get the .htaccess file set to improve performance, fix the default homepage, and implement a b2evolution hack Miguel told me about that permits comment moderation. 
On this day..
- Copyright Infringement Claims Lead to Suspension of Legoboy YouTube Channels - 2011
- OKC WordPress User's Group Meeting Notes: August 2011 - 2011
- Storychasing Follow Me Sunday with an iPad2 and iRig Mic - 2011
- Podcast356: Discussing EV (Electric Vehicle) Technology and Plugin Hybrids with Nathan Parrow of Oklahoma Robotics LLC - 2010
- Laptop Learning in Massachusetts: BYOL on the horizon? - 2010
- eBook Resources (for iPhone users and others) - 2009
- Podcast328: Students as Self-Advocates: Why/How Learners Should Craft Their Own Digital Footprints (Ginger Lumen) - 2009
- Akismet spam delete all problem fixed - 2008
- Live tweeting back to school night - 2008
- "Prince Caspian" and the Return to Narnia: Making the Journey to Literacy Through Fantasy - 2007
