Friday, November 14, 2008

Comparing Blogs in 2009


Introduction
In 2009, I will be looking at four blogs to use with my classes and for my own use.


These are the links to the free online blogs that you can try.
  1. Blogger
  2. Edublogs
  3. Bloglines
  4. WordPress
This will be my own experiences as I try them out before the start of school in February, 2009 here in Australia.

A helpful guide is Todd Stauffer's book How to Do Everything with Your Web 2.0 Blog.

Let's Get Started
Here are the links to the blogs that I have set up.
  1. Blogger
  2. Edublogs
  3. Bloglines
  4. WordPress

Edublogs will let you you have as many blogs as you want. You just have to look down on the right hand sidebar to find the link.

This makes Blogger appear far easier to use for several blogs under the one user name.. Also Blogger is integrated into the Google tools which can make using it much easier.

When you go to use Wordpress, make sure that you start out with the free one - Wordpress.com.

That's enough for today.