Well, finally the completely obvious thing to do dawned on me.
WPMU + edublogs.org = Free education blogs for anyone who darn well wants them.
And that’s about it really.
WPMU at edublogs.org provides anyone who wants it with a free version of the latest (checkout 1.6!) version of WordPress.
First up you’ll get the domain http://yourdomain.edublogs.org
Then you’ll get 10MB (initially) of completely free upload space… plus unlimited MySQL (i.e. posts) space.
And with the new version of WPMU you also get to choose any one of a number of bloody great WordPress Themes (just contact me if you want a particular one pre-installed). In a few weeks you’ll be able to edit them too!
Until the time that some philanthropic educational organisation comes and takes this over (that’s an invitation BTW!) this will be entirely supported by incsub and donations. No ads, no fees, no business model…. ahhh makes me smile :o)
So if you know any teachers, students, researchers, writers or ANYONE interested in education… let them know that they can start their edublog at edublogs.org.
This is gonna be fun!
Thanks for this! I sometimes do workshops for teachers and want something easy for them to use and instant for them to set up. For many, Blogger’s random next blog button is just too scary and adding the noembed tags in the template is too intimidating. With all the fear, uncertainty, and doubt around blogging, I hope the edublogs.org domain will help make for a gentler introduction. Thanks, again!
There’s a typo on the registration page at edublogs
Looks like a great service! :)
There’s just another small typo on the about page: “[...] who are intersted in education.”
Cheers guys… late on the weekend + spellbound not working for deer park = many typos :o)
(am into my equations at the moment)