In my experience, Wordpress is great for blogs when a single student is using them (and either wordpress.com or James Farmer's edublogs.org both offer great, easy-to-use and freely hosted versions of Wordpress Mu which anyone can sign up to and be blogging in five minutes) but Blogger is actually easier to set up for course or tutorial blogs (ie those blogs where a number of students or your entire course are blogging in one place, in one blog -- or even one bon log! ;) If you do prefer to run them on your university's servers rather than a service hosted elsewhere, blogger can be set up this way (although the interface and brain of the service remains on the google servers while your actual blog itself is on the uni server) or Wordpress Mu (http://mu.wordpress.org/) could be installed by one person and then used as the portal through which students cna set up blogs without actually going through installation themselves. Cheers, Tama -- Dr Tama Leaver Associate Lecturer (Higher Education Development) Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning (M400) University of Western Australia 35 Stirling Highway Crawley WA 6009 Australia Ph: (+61 8) 6488 1502 Fax: (+61 8) 6488 1156 www: http://www.catl.uwa.edu.au blog: http://ponderance.blogspot.com edublog: http://tama.edublogs.org On 10/19/06, Jeremy Hunsinger <jhuns@vt.edu> wrote:
I just had my students set up on wordpress.com it is free, though you can pay for special extras, and has what i think is the best spam protection around. oh... it took them less time to set up the blog on their own than it too me to tell them what a blog was... so that was funny.... i said 15 minutes... 2 minutes later they are staring at me... On Oct 18, 2006, at 10:45 AM, Christopher J. Richter wrote:
My experience with blogs is limited to reading, and occasionally posting comments to other peoples. But during January I will be co- teaching a travel-study course We would like one of the assignments to be a travel blog for the entire class.
We will probably be able to get server space on a university computer. But I need advice on possible software/applications. At a minimum we want our students to be able to input/upload text and images (video would be nice, too). The interface needs to be relatively simple, as we will sometimes be working from cybercafés, with limited time to fuss with things. And, of course, cost is a factor. Any suggestions?
Feel free to offer advice either on or off list.
Thanks Chris
Christopher J. Richter Assoc. Prof. & Chair, Communication Studies Hollins University P.O. Box 9652 Roanoke VA, 24020 Tel. 5403626358 Fax 5403626286 e-mail crichter@hollins.edu web www.hollins.edu
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