This is just a short posting to show what posting to my blog looks like.
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Hi there…I’m also in the workshop. What are some good education alternatives to Blogger?
I have another question…I found edublogs in your handout, and I set up a blog. I’m sort of unsure about what to do about students…I know I don’t want them to have their own blogs within my course, but I’m not sure whether they should be able to post as users or as commenters only. Any ideas?
Hi Sylvia,
You asked about options for setting up a classroom blog – you have a few options -
1) You can use open source blogging software such as “wordpress” installed on your school network. The person in charge of the network would need to download the software from (http://wordpress.org/ – a school should use the multi-user package) and then install it on your network – Once it is installed, you would gain access much like you did through edublogs since that is an example of a site that uses the multi-user wordpress software.
2) The other options I would jump at are learnerblogs.org (set up by the same person as edublogs) and http://www.classblogmeister.com/ organized by David Warlick, the author of recently, Classroom Blogging: A Teacher’s Guide to the Blogosphere. Oh ya, and since we’re in Ontario, I would certainly recommend checking into http://blogs.enoreo.on.ca/ , an educational blogging environment set up by the Education Network of Ontario.
If you don’t want your students to have their own blog, they would simply COMMENT on your blog… it looks like they can’t be ‘users’ unless they have their own blog.
Perhaps others have additional comments or good educational alternatives to Blogger….
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