Monday, September 3, 2012

Creating a blog

Creating this blog for EDU 651: Collaboration & Learning was a straightforward experience for me. I've been blogging online since 2002, although not with Blogger, but most of the clients have enough similarities to make the experience familiar.

I do like blogger's interface quite a bit. It's very user friendly, with clear icons for things like links, images, and even videos, which I can see being a huge advantage in education. The blogging client I use for my personal blog does not have such a simple way to imbed videos, so that impressed me.

I can definitely see how Blogger would make a powerful classroom tool. The commenting feature is simple and intuitive to use, making for easy discussions. I also really like the ability to have more than one blog associated with the same username, so a teacher can create more than one blog for multiple classes.