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Setting your blog privacy

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At ISPP, our vision is learning together, growing together, each making a difference . All students blog about their learning, and when we read each other's blogs and support and encourage one another with comments and conversations, we help make that vision a reality. We need our blogs to be public, so that anyone with the link can view them, but we also do not want our blogs to show up in a Google search! We hide our blogs from search engines and Blogger blog listings so that we can easily share our blogs within our community. To check your settings: Go to your blog and on the left scroll down to select settings, Basic. Make sure it is not listed on Blogger and not visible to search engines. If you need to edit, the screen looks like this. Click No and No and then save.  Scroll down to Blog Readers and make sure it is public.  If you need to edit, the screen looks like this. Choose public. If you ever need help with your blog, you can ...

Make your Blogger Profile Private

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By default, your Blogger profile is public. If you are a G+ user (Grades 9 and up -only for 13 years old and older), follow these privacy instructions . If you have a limited Blogger Profile (for students in Grade 8 or under) to make it private, follow these steps: Click on your picture at the top right and select "Blogger Profile"  If you get a page that says the profile not available, your profile is already private.  If there is an Edit Profile button, click it.  Make sure all the privacy boxes are UNticked  Scroll all the way down to save your changes.   Your profile is now private.

Planning for TEDxISPP 2016

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We have submitted our application to renew our TEDxISPP License for our second TEDxISPP event, which we have put on the calendar for 26 November 2016 in the Black Box Theatre. Sopheak Vong, our co-Organizer in 2015, is already polling our community to determine our theme for 2016 and here are the results thus far: Want to add your voice? Complete the survey here . ISPP hosted our first ever TEDxISPP event on November 14th with the theme "Made in the Future," inspired by TEDYouth 2015 . Our aim was to give youth in Phnom Penh a voice, and to bring student ideas into meaningful conversations. In addition to our own students, we invited student speakers from Liger Learning Center , Northbridge , and Logos . Next year we hope to also include students from the Cambodian Children's Fund . Our organizing team was composed of students from ISPP and Liger Learning Center, who worked tirelessly together to coordinate all the details of the event. This was a challenging a...

Collaborative research template for Google Docs

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When you are trying to answer a big question, there are often so many areas to research that developing an intelligent answer that considers a wide variety of information and perspectives can be overwhelming. Researching in teams and dividing the topics for research can be a great way to gather resources and learn more in less time. In education, we call this the jigsaw method . This video shows a method for setting up a Google Doc so that groups or individuals can research different topics and share a summary of their findings with the whole team. Each team member can then review the summaries and engage in discussion over the topics so that everyone can bring all the research topics together and build a thoughtful and informed personal answer to the big question. Research teams will have discussions while completing their section of the document, and they usually divide the work further -perhaps each person chooses certain questions to focus on, or each person finds a differ...