Simple blog management from Google
Submitted 11 years ago
Community Review for Blogger
Randall B.
Technology Systems Specialist
Putnam County Schools
Winfield WV, US
My Take
Blooger is very easy to learn. It allows you to quickly get a site on the web and ready to go. The features are great, but the interface is not as simple or attractive as what can be found in WordPress.
How I Use It
Blogger allowed me to easily launch my own website/blog with very little knowledge of website programming language needed. I loved the various tools available to expand the functionality of a Blogger site. I wish some of the interface was as simple as Wordpress (my former blog management platform), but the fact that it is supported and ran by Google allowed me to make the jump over seamlessly.
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Miriam K.
Media Specialist
Cornell Elementary School
Coraopolis, PA
December 11, 2014
Easy and fun way to make a classroom website
I really like using this product. Students should have a gmail/google account to use this product effectively. While there are some easy aspects to using Blogger, it can take some time to figure out all of the nuances. Also, every time you edit it will open up in a new window, that can get a little hard to keep track of. It takes a little time exploring to make sure that you have the blog setup in the way you would like. I find that after the initial time, it goes pretty quickly.
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Tracey C.
Teacher
Raleigh, NC
November 17, 2014
My Google loyalty led me here.
It could be a better interface, but I'm working with it. I used to build a website with similar capabilities, but I find the blog format (i.e., new post every day at the top of a list, organized by date) is very helpful for kids to keep organized. I truthfully started using Blogger because it's a Google product and compatible seamlessly with my school Google/GAFE account, but I really do like it. For student blogging, I prefer Kidblog, FYI.
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Janice L A.
Special education teacher
Grosse Pointe South High School
Grosse Pointe Farms, MI
August 31, 2014
An easy-to-use platform for getting students writing and reflecting.
Blogger is a great tool for students to start writing on the web and keeping a blog. While it doesn't offer tons of customization for the user, it does offer the basic features necessary for any teacher to get their students blogging. The learning curve for kids to get started with Blogger is minimal, and they will quickly pick up the way that the formatting works for crafting a blog post with multimedia embedded. It should give the user the ability to turn off a feature like "Next Blog" so that students don't stumble into the wrong blog reading environment by accident. The commenting features, however, are very nice and make it accessible for students to comment on one another's blog posts. I like that the interface of Blogger is minimalist and that a user doesn't need to know a lot of programming or HTML coding in order to get the most out of Blogger, unlike some other blogging platforms. If it had a text-to-speech feature, I think that would be a highly desirable functionality for student bloggers, especially those who are emerging writers or special needs students.
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