Edublogs comments

[Mike]

I love my edublogs, but I'm having trouble with comments.

I want a closed system for class purposes, but I couldn't figure out how to do it for members only since my members are students and edublogs doesn't want students.

So, I turned commenting on and had them just put their first name and email, but edublogs sees our comments coming from a single IP, so it freaks out and says "You are commenting too fast" when kids hit it at the start of the period.

Am I missing an easy solution?

- Mike

[Kevin H.]

Your best bet is to use the Edublogs forum: http://edublogs.org/forums/
Or search there for the answer, because I believe this has come up before.

This Ning platform is very different from Edublogs.
Kevin

[Alice Mercer]

There has been a particular problem with this lately, http://edublogs.org/forums/topic.php?id=1212&replies=1 I would suggest you add a message to this thread at edublogs.

[Alice Mercer]

I would add a comment on the forum, since this is being discussed there: http://edublogs.org/forums/topic.php?id=1212&replies=1

[Alice Barr]

Mike: Our school has been dealing with this issue as well. If you add your question to the forum. James is pretty good about getting an answer back. We noticed that edublogs has been fairly cranky this week anyway.

[Cathy Wolinsky]

I have younger students who don't have email so I am using Classroom Blogmeister by David Warlick. The teacher creates the blog and then students are part of that blog. You can make the blog completely private if you want.

[Ernie Easter]

Since I teach 7th & 8th grade in Maine I have StudyWiz on our student iBooks. I have an open, ongoing Discussion Activity in my Language Arts Class that we treat as a class room blog. Students post comments and I, as well as several other teachers and our principal, are part of the discussion. We've had some interesting and thought provoking discussions.

[coakes]

Hey Mike,
Give alicebarr a shout, she uses edublogs frequently! Keep the conversation going.
Cheryl

[Alice Barr]

I have a couple of thoughts
1) Try LearnerBlogs.org. This is the student version of Edublogs. It would mean each student could have their own blog.
2) Try moderating comments, then the IP issue might not be so bad
3) Try ClassBlogmeister which is a closed system for blogging. You register all the kids and can keep it secure.
Hope this helps