EdTechTrek

I have finally made the move from Wordpress.com to Edublogs… A few technichal issues, but then James, handling Edublogs support has been great! I think I am finally up and running.I have been dragging my feet for some time now because things have been so busy. And truthfully, I thought it would be a real hassle. But, except for one technical issue involved with a corrupt blog post in my exported blog archive, it wasn’t that bad at all. So, for those of you thinking about migrating to another blog service, here are the steps. There may be specifics for individual blog services that you may need to investigate.

1. Delete all of your spam prior to step 2 to decrease file size
2. Export your blog as an XML file (in dashboard, >Manage >Export)
3. Import that XML file into your new blog space
4. Customize
5. If you want to import your blogroll from your old blog, you can do that, too. Check on the particulars with your old blog service, but Edublogs makes this very easy under the “Blogroll” tab in your dashboard.
6. If you have problems, do check the FAQs page and the Forums page of the blog service. You are most likely not the first person to have problems and can learn from others.
7. As a last resort, email James here at Edublogs… he rescued me!

Good Luck!

I had forgotten about this little gem until I found it again in my inbox as I was doing some housekeeping. Edublogs has

created a new blog and user creator to facilitate the creation of blogs for others. All you need to do is fill out the details to easily create multiple users and blogs and even add yourself as admin to them if you woud like. This process makes it very easy to add blogs for your students or perhaps your colleagues. And, for students, it has the feature of being a co-administrator in their blog if that is something that would be desirable.

The tool allows you to create 15 new blogs/users at one time and couldn’t be easier.