Edublogs is a well-respected free educational blogging service started two years ago by James Farmer. Since then, the service has grown in leaps and bounds, and now hosts nearly 100,000 individual blogs for teachers and students. In this episode we talk to James about the Edublogs service, where it grew from and where it’s going, and some great ideas for classroom blogging. It’s been an amazingly valuable and versatile service for the educational blogging community, and Edublogs offers one of the most cutting edge free blogging services on the Web.

I’d been trying to arrange this interview with James for a while, and coincidentally we just happened to record this on Edublogs’ second birthday. Happy Birthday Edublogs and thanks for sharing the love James!

Links from this show…

• Edublogs - The main Edublogs site
  
• WPMUDEV - Another of James’ WP projects
  
• Wordpress - The official Wordpress website
  
• IncSub - James’ personal blog

As always, we welcome your comments. Heck, you ought to at least wish Edublogs a happy birthday!

PS. I also tried some new techniques for getting the filesize of these podcasts down a bit, and this 27 minute episode comes in at a slim 11Mb. I think the quality is still pretty reasonable, but please drop me a comment and let me know what you think.

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Adrian Bruce is an innovative Australian teacher who freely gives away his reading games, maths games, quizzes, posters, etc, over the Internet as a way of helping other teachers. After five years of giving his stuff away online, Adrian’s website now gets over half a  million page views every month as it distributes his work to students all over the world.

A past winner of the Microsoft Innovative Teacher Award, Adrian is continually trying new things, playing with new software and thinking of new ways to integrate ICTs into his work. In this episode we get some insights into the mind of a truly creative and generous teacher.

Some links from this show…

• www.adrianbruce.com - Adrian’s Website
• Teacher Toolbox - Adrian’s Blog
• Project Starfish - An award winning class project
• Class Blogmeister - David Warlick’s blog engine
• Shannon’s Blog - As mentioned in the show
• Podomatic - For making podcasts easily
• Audacity - For working with sound
• Paint.net - Paint, reinvented

Go visit his website! It’s great!

PS: Adrian’s Blog, Teacher Toolbox, is currently coming third in the Best Educational Blog section of the Bloggers Choice Awards. Go check it out… and maybe even give him your vote!

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