Tech Help
Hello Tech Savvy bloggers. I am not tech savvy, and this cause me to seek help. Here's the problem: My school has blocked access to blogger this year. I've been using it for two years and would like to continue to do so. But, because Blogger.com and the blogspot url needs "full site access," and because the "next blog" feature in the top right, the filters will now block access. Is there a way around this? Or has anyone used edublogs.org?
posted by Mr. McNamar @ 6:35 PM
7 Comments
7 Comments:
Hi Mr McNamar,
You can get rid of the nav bar for blogger as I have with my blog: just paste in #b-navbar {
height:0px;
visibility:hidden;
display:none
} between the style tags or see http://blogger-templates.blogspot.com/2005/01/remove-navbar.html for more help.
But I have also used http://learnerblogs.org for my students blogs as they are specifically designed for student bloggers. Have a look at http://mccyeareight.learnerblogs.org for an example.
I'm in the midst of my first edu/learnerblogs experience, and it's going well. There were some hiccups a few weeks ago while James did some upgrades, but it's been pretty reliable recently.
Check out what we've been doing and see if it might work for you:
http://jwasserman.edublogs.org
http://mantha.learnerblogs.org
Jo beat me to it - I was going to suggest eliminating the Blogger nav bar exactly as she suggests, and seeing if your tech folks would lift the filter for that (those) specific sites.
I have too many blogs, but I like having the edublog to share with my students and coworkers. I also have a WordPress blog on my yahoo hosted site.
When I came here earlier to read your whole post (I use bloglines) I couldn't even access it. I got a Google error.
I use a blogspot address for a school club back here in RI, and our tech guy was able to un-block just the URLs needed for students to access that blog, and blogger to log-in (if necessary), while leaving all the other blogger free speech sufficiently blocked.
If someone says it isn't possible for you/your school, they probably just don't want to bother.
Good luck,
Nick (friend of Keith's)
I'd set up the students as contributors and then they can write but not publish to the internet until you approve it.
You can check out the way roles work at http://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities
It takes a little while to do but it should work out.
The easiest way I have found is to go to the template section.
Find this tag < body >
(Without spaces, I have to use them because Blogger reads it is as html code.)
replace with
< noembed > < body > < /noembed >
Again, no spaces in your code.
Save all the template changes, republish and you should be set.
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