After hassles of getting new students logged on to Blogger, email not working for students in the first couple of weeks of school, etc I (on the recommendation of many Year 8 students) have started a new class blog at room3tai.edublogs.org.
Edublogs certainly allows more variety in presentations, widgets etc and the students did not need an email account. I was able to add them to my gmail account.
Rock on!
[...] recommend Edublogs as a starting spot for teachers new to blogging. I have had great support from James Farmer and fellow users at the Edublogs forum (like Cerebral Odd Jobs) and think they’re the perfect [...]
[...] recommend Edublogs as a starting spot for teachers new to blogging. I have had great support from James Farmer and fellow users at the Edublogs forum (like Cerebral Odd Jobs) and think they’re the perfect [...]