Friday 20 April 2012

Using Blogs


My favorite website is learnerblogs.org because it is very easy to use. I think it’s the easiest site to use and I feel that I could really use this for a real blog. Since I’ve never used a blog before, I think this is the best way to start blogging. This site did have instructions on how to set up my blog and how to use the different features. Most of this website was simple enough to be self explanatory, but I also needed a little prior knowledge to help use part of this website. I have looked through the settings and I am unsure if you have the ability to control what sees the blog and comment on my site. If I were to recommend a blog for a student to set up, I would suggest blogger.com because it is the easiest to begin with and to start your own blog. Once you begin using this blog, I would then recommend using learnerblog.org because it is a little more advanced, but it is a lot better in my opinion. I chose learnerblog.org over the other two sites because it was the perfect mix of easy and hard to make and use the blog. Blogger.com was my next favorite because it was easy to use and a good blog, but I felt like learnerblog.org was just a little better. Wordpress.com was my least favorite because it was harder to set up and is more complicated to use. I would not recommend this to other people to use this unless you are an experienced blogger. I would tell the students that they should learn the different ways to blog. There’s not much to know when using this blog because it is quite simple and easy to use. On wordpress.com I found it very difficult to set up and to start using it, but on the other two blogs it was very simple and easy to set. Overall, I think thatlearnerblogs.org was the most effective blog.