Blogging…
Today I was talking with some friends, @Mrs_Banjer and @mobbsey on Twitter about blogs, and what is / isn’t blocked by their schools, or Ed Qld.I was trying to find a solution for them, so that they could blog at school, without any trouble.
I would love for them to use wordpress.org, but I realise that not everyone has their own hosting, and then you have to buy a domain name etc, and if you’re not really into serious blogging (or don’t have the luxury of a husband who’s in web design, like me), then you’re probably quite put off by all that initial cost. So this wasn’t an option.
My second choice- wordpress.com, a lot of educators use edublogs for the blogging needs, and it is wordpress rebadged, so it would be an easy transition (edublogs is unfortunately blocked by EQ). But apparently wordpress.com is blocked, so I was onto my third choice.
The third choice- blogger. I’m not a fan. I want to be, I really do, but all that orange, and the limitations on the blog itself just put me off. However, I do know this, blogger will let you submit blog posts via email. The subject becomes the title, and then email becomes the content. You get a special email to send it to, and it posts straight away. Handy if blogger is blocked in your school, because obviously, your email address isn’t.
In the end Fiona found a different site to use, but it really annoyed me that my favourite free, easy to use blogging system didn’t have what I wanted, and that the one I really want to use- blogger (because of it’s kick arse google-ness, and the fact that so many people use it), doesn’t have the things that wordpress does…
Why oh why can they not just copy each others ideas!
On another note, I logged into my wordpress.com today (after a long time not logging in), to view the 15 blogs I have there (which are all now extinct), and I thought to myself how nice it was to be part of that wordpress community. When you have your own blog, you’re just on your own, there are no popular blogs of the week, or things like that popping up. No easy way to browse other people’s blogs… I do miss that.
I think 2009 will be my ‘community online’ year- where I’ll try to put myself ‘out there’ more online, and connect and be part of the team.
Tags: blogger, blogging, edublogs, EQ, fiona, mobbsey, mrs_banjer, School, wordpress
December 30th, 2008
Thanks for all the tips you were giving. I enjoy tinkering with the widgets in WordPress etc. but I have to admit they do take up time I could be using considering what to type into a post!
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Hopefully my new Edna.edu.au blog will pass the test of time. I haven’t been too successful at maintaining previous sites!
I want to be able to view it at school because I store links and resources that I can use or share during the school day.
See you back on Twitter…
December 30th, 2008
I choose blogger initially simply because I was naive and had no idea what features there were versus what I would want.
I’ve played around in wordpress a little and do plan on starting another blog sometime this year on wordpress but have no intentions of switching my current blog over. I feel very comfortable where I am now that I’m used to it.
Dutchess of Kickballs last blog post..Happy Birthday
December 30th, 2008
um..dont know how i ended up here, but nice blog…will be back. Happy Holidays.
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December 30th, 2008
This topic has been up for debate quite a lot of times but none of the posts were as detailed as yours. AdminI hope to see such quality posts from you in the future.