My husband and I love mucking around on
computers, in fact we built the one I am currently using to type this
on. We have been fortunate enough to have them around since our
primary school days. Having said that I have had lots of experience
exploring and testing new programs. I have created blogs and wikis to
be used in my classroom and for personal use as well as using free
ones like wikispaces and more recently Edmodo.
For the blog task I
read and watched reviews on the three blogs sites suggested for the
class; Wordpress, Blogger and Edublog. The latter of these three was
ruled out quickly as it looked quite locked down and there was not as
many 'how to' pages as the other sites. I chose to create an account
for both Wordpress and Blogger and play around with it. I found
Blogger was easier to personalise and it was possible to add html
code quite easily to customise the look of the site.
I have found it
annoying that you can not easily upload documents to the page, like
you might on a site like wikispaces. However, I have been able to get
around this with another Google site, Google docs (or Dropbox public
sharing). Anyway that was some of my reasoning behind choosing
Blogger for this task.
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