Two easy ways for educators and students to start a blog (for free)

It’s really easy to get started blogging – here’s two different ways to get up and running with a quality blog site quickly.

With the start of the new school year many teachers, administrators, and students will be thinking about finally starting that blog they’ve been considering. I promised in last week’s final post in my “Blogging in Education Today” series that I would write a post about how to get started, and here it is.

Below I provide a little information about two of the major players in the educational blogosphere. Following these introductions, I’ve provided a couple brief video tutorials that show you how to get started with either one of these blogging applications.

Edublogs.org

One easy way to get started is with Edublogs. They’ve been around since 2005, and the site provides only education related blogs. Given that focus, they offer some unique functionality for educators and students. For example ... [READ FULL POST]