Well, you know how sometimes you get into a situation where you’re saying “Yes, there should be an edublogs-esque place for students” and “Yes, there should be a dedicated K12 environment for that too” and “Well, yes, I know how to do that”.
Well, that’d be a fair summary of my experience in edtechtalk at lunchtime today and the net result, while all you lazy dudes have been sleeping, is learnerblogs.org – Free Blogs for Schools.
No special theme yet (although a neat package of 30 themes are there as options) and there are a few ongoing WPMU hiccoughs (like the image thing doesn’t work properly) – but I’ll fix them up next week.
Otherwise, there you go… now learners have a place as well as educators.
(BTW uniblogs.org is also on the way for Uni / college students… watch this space – as opposed to that blank one ;)
Thank you, James, for doing this. Finally when teachers are asking me where to set up blogs for students I don’t have to send them into the pit of depravity that is blogger! I’m fortunate enough to be at a school where we have our own server and I can set up blogs for students, but not everyone is in this situation. This is a terrific service you are offering for schools.
[...] A few months ago I mentioned edublogs.org and thought it was for students too (it’s just for educators). Well, now there’s learnerblogs.org. According to the announcement it sounds like it is aimed at K12. But uniblogs.org was created to support the college and university segment. Hopefully they will get polished up like edublogs.org. At the moment they are rather rough. James at incsub sure has been busy! [...]