BP2_Edublogs

Hello, everyone.

Looking through the Web 2.0 technology, I think I found something that both students and teachers can use.  It is called Edublogs.  This technology allows both students and teachers to write their own blogs on the Internet.  What makes this technology unique is that you don't need an e-mail address in order to have your own blog.

Here is what the Edublogs introduction page looks like:

And this page allows you access to Edublogs once it is filled out:

As you can see, on the part where it asks for an e-mail address, it asks whether you have an e-mail address or not.  You can still create your own blog, but without the e-mail address it will not allow you to reset the password.  So, for students, it would be imperative to save their passwords.

Once they have logged on all of their information, you name your blog, and that is basically it!

After you have logged on to your blog site, you will get this page:  the Dashboard.  Here at the Dashboard you basically have everything you need to start your blog.  It has all of the basic information (e.g. blog posts, number of posts, links for customizing your posts).  The good think about this Dashboard is that to the right of the page the user has links for getting started with Edublogs, including help with getting the blogs started to getting students to start their own blogs.

In fact, Edublogs already gives you your first blog post.  It looks like this:

On this blog, Edublogs gives you a bird's eye view of what Edublogs and a few good words about how Edublogs works.

It's a very simple style of blog, which may be a good start for students.  It keeps all of the clutter of too many fancy fonts or pictures on the page.  Sometimes simple is better.

For Edublogs, both teachers and students can create their own blogs.  Students have the advantage of having blogs with no e-mails attached; students just need to remember their passwords.  It is an easy program to use and simple to set up.  With more practice, I believe that students and teachers can start using this program at school and help them communicate not only with each other, but maybe with others at different schools throughout the county.  Teachers have the option of taking the Pro version, which allows for more options.

Let me know if you all could you use this.  I know I can.

Thanks, everybody.

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