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| Jul 12 2006, 8:35 PM EDT (current) | Anonymous | 64 words added, 8 words deleted |
| Jul 12 2006, 1:43 AM EDT | wfryer | 81 words added |
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ClassBlogmeister is a free tool created by David Warlick for classroom blogging. Some reasons to consider using it instead of other tools are:
- Supports the writing process, teachers can sendleave draftscomments/feedback backbehind tothe studentsscenes withfor feedbackstudents before publishing.articles are published.
- Easy and straightforward, doesn't require lots of technical tweaking.
- Students have their own blogs: Gives more ownership to students.
- Permits full teacher moderation of posts and comments.
- Is in use by a lot of teachers, a good support network exists to get help
- Is supported by an active and growing discussion list of users at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/classblogmeister/
- Because of 5 and 6, above, there is very much a sense of community with teachers and students who use classblogmeister.
- Consistency of the interface is very helpful for students who are reading and commenting on the blogs of other students.
