Sunday, September 8, 2013

Blog and Resource sites

The three instructional design blog and resources websites that I have decided to critique are teachersfirst.com, wordpress.com, and Edublog.org. Teachersfirst.com website is a resource website mainly for teachers to precede research on different subject areas and grade levels. It also provides different feedback and blogs on other blog sites and the use of different projects and systems. According to the website it states that it's "teachersFirst is a free, advertising-free teacher resource web site offered as a services to teachers by The Source for Learning, a non-profit learning and technologies corporation. TeachersFirst is a free resource that was started by an extraordinary collection of individuals with an unlikely opportunity to share their good fortune". Teachersfirst.com website is an excellent web page for teachers, parents and students who are extremely busy or just browsing for some new information. 

Wordpress.com is basically a very user friendly blog system but it can be used as a regular site which you can update without any knowledge of html. On this site you can create pages and posts, and with plugins, you can add a lot of functionality. WordPress has no multi-lingual capability but this can be managed with a plug-in, which is quite easy to use. WordPress can handle tons of visitors. Importing posts and pages from other blog sites is easy as well. WordPress is simple, you can see it as a blog or as a regular website.  It has fixed pages, posts and categories.

Blogger.com is the website that I have chosen to use. To me blogger.com is one of the most popular blog systems.   Blogger.com is completely free to users. All of the features and services available through Blogger.com are offered free-of-charge to all users which are one of the benefits of using blogger.com. A key advantage in choosing Blogger.com as your blogging software is its versatility. Bloggers are not limited in the amount of traffic or storage space their blogs generate and use, and bloggers can create as many blogs as they want. Bloggers who use Blogger.com also have the ability to manipulate the templates available to them in order to create more unique blog themes.

Each of these blog and resource sites are very beneficial to me but because of me being an actual first time user of any blogs, blogger.com seems to be the best for me. It’s very easy to access and to create and post a blog and the website also provides a lot of feedback.

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