Restarting classroom blog without losing old information?
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My blog is located at nabers.wordpress.com
I’m a teacher, and I used a blog very successfully in my class last year. I’d like to use the blog again this year, but all of the old stuff from last year’s class is still there. I’d hate to delete it, but chances are good that I will want to use at least some of the same questions, prompts, etc for this year’s class.
Is there a way to archive the old stuff and start the blog off “new”? I looked at the password protecting options, but I’m not sure if that’s the best method? (Basically password protect all the old entries so current kids can’t look at them).
Is the best thing to do is create a *new* blog for this year’s class?
Thanks for any advice.
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You could set them to private, then they will not be accessible.. that what you mean? Then only you can see them.
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you can set the posts to unpublished also then those posts will
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As a teacher myself, I must say I wouldn’t like at all the idea of having my students stumble upon “restricted areas”. Second, how do you imagine re-using older posts, set them off private again when you need them? Then they will include last year’s comments and responses, which I guess you wouldn’t want.
So I would suggest you start a new blog, naming it, say, “nabers09”. Note that you don’t have to build it from scratch: you can import the old one -complete with its pages, categories and everything- into the new (Manage > Export & Import). Then you can delete all the posts in the new one, set the whole of the old one to private (Settings > Privacy), and simply copy material from the old to the new whenever you need it.
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One more suggestion: At the moment your blog has no obvious way of navigating from a secondary page or a particular post back to the front page. I would either add a “home page” button or a note saying you can click on the title of the blog to get back to the home page.
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One thing to remember: the Google cache (and Yahoo cache) of those pages exist, no matter what you do, assuming that your blog was public. So they can find the old posts, anyway.
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Thanks everyone! It was private, so I don’t think I have to worry about the google cache. Don’t get me wrong, I’m assuming that someone who really wanted to could find it, but I just wanted some options. Thanks for the idea about the home page, too.
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