Blogging within GAFE Domain Only?

[Richard Greenberg]

Hi. I am looking for a blogging platform for my school - but one in which the students can only share their blogs within our Google domain. I don't think this is the case with Blogger - but maybe I am missing something here. Thanks, Rich

[Melinda Waffle]

Have you considered having them do this within Google Sites?  It's not ideal, but will work and give you that level of control you indicate is wanted...

Melinda Waffle

Educational Technology Consultant

Calhoun Intermediate School District

Marshall, MI
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On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 11:16 AM, Richard Greenberg <richard....@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi. I am looking for a blogging platform for my school - but one in which the students can only share their blogs within our Google domain. I don't think this is the case with Blogger - but maybe I am missing something here. Thanks, Rich

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[Gerancher, Charlie]

The only problem with Google Sites Announcements page template is that nobody can make comments. There are some ways around that issue. Steegle.com has a way to do it using a spreadsheet script. It may also work if you do page level permissions.

It would also be possible to have the students create a Google Document and share it with the other students in the class, giving them "can comment" rights. Some of my third graders figured that out on their own after finding out that our district has chat disabled in the student domain.

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[Tim Timmons]

Good idea Melinda. 

I am in a K-8 district, and am concerned with the level accountability the blog sites are going to be pushing down to districts that have students under the age of 13 as a result of the COPPA updates that take effect in July. If the students all have there own accounts in the walled environment of the district domain, then this would be an effective way to teach them digital citizenship with the headache.

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[Melinda Waffle]

Actually, you can turn commenting on for Announcement pages now.  And, they can either comment at the page level, or on the individual "announcements" which makes it much more like a blogging site than it was previously.

Under the More dropdown list, when you select Page settings, you get a window (see attached) where you can turn on commenting.  By default, it uses the main page settings for the individual announcements.

Melinda

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[Tom Donovan]

This isn't a Google answer, but we use WordPress for situations like this.  Most recently, we set up a server in-house to host student web sites (the kids call them "blogs"--we call them "portfolios" ;-)   When WP is hosted on your own server, you have ultimate control over access.  You can put the server behind your firewall, which makes it accessible only from inside your network.  Of course, that also means it's not accessible, even to the students, from home.

WordPress's multi-site functionality, along with a handful of key plugins (including an authentication plugin--LDAP in our case), makes it feasible to set up and maintain, though as with most things technological in schools, the ease of use and management is inversely proportional to the desire to lock things down.

-Tom

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On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 10:16 AM, Richard Greenberg <richard....@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi. I am looking for a blogging platform for my school - but one in which the students can only share their blogs within our Google domain. I don't think this is the case with Blogger - but maybe I am missing something here. Thanks, Rich

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