A Shift…

Posted on February 20, 2009 by MissSignal.
Categories: Class, blogging.



This year we have decided to shift the class blog over to blogger.  For the past year I have listened to many people talk about the benefits of using a certain blogging site over the other – namely the one they favour the most.  Each site seems to have a range of bonuses that make them unique over the others.

In the holidays I did alot of research looking at a range of pluses and minuses of using a range of different systems.

The most popular sites for classroom blogging seem to be:

21 classes

Edublogs

Blogger

A few people seem to be making a shift away from Edublogs due to their new supporter system which is a more user pays system for extras such as video uploading etc.  Edublogs have been and are still a stealth supporter of educational blogging.

The decision to trial blogger as a class blog site was made for a few reasons – the main benefit was being able to use a site and all its possibilities free and the second being that it was to be ad free.

I would be interested to hear more from people who have, have not or are considering made a switch to another blogging site.  Why you made or will not shift and how you are finding the transition if you have?

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  Mrs C
Comment on February 20th, 2009.

I have moved away from edublogs this year too, because of the way they keep changing the rules. As a Victorian, I can access globalstudent.org.au, which is actually Edublogs Campus paid for by the Victorian government.
Good luck with Blogger – it seems to have some great features.

Comment on February 28th, 2009.

I use blogger for my class blog. I have played with wordpress, but I feel like it is not as intuitive for me. I really like how I can add html into my sidebars easily, as well as putting about anything on my posts. It certainly doesn’t hurt that it is free.

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